Re: [Dle-develop] [RFC][PATCH] avoid swapping out with swappiness==0

[Christoph L. <cl...@li...>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Richard Davies wrote:

> I strongly believe that Linux should have a way to turn off swapping unless
> absolutely necessary. This means that users like us can run with swap
> present for emergency use, rather than having to disable it because of the
> side effects.

Agree. And this ooperation mode should be the default behavior given that
swapping is a very slow and tedious process these days.