>There's also a lot of misunderstanding about the purpose of swap – many people just see it as a kind of "slow extra memory" for use in emergencies, but don't understand how it can contribute during normal load to the healthy operation of an operating system as a whole.
That's the long-standing defect that needs to be corrected then, there should be no dependence on swap existing whatsoever as long as you have more than enough memory for the entire workload.
That's the long-standing defect that needs to be corrected then, there should be no dependence on swap existing whatsoever as long as you have more than enough memory for the entire workload.