Disagree, on most of my systems I don't even have swap partition anymore. The few times I need it, I can just create a swap file on the fly and have any amount

Disagree, on most of my systems I don't even have swap partition anymore. The few times I need it, I can just create a swap file on the fly and have any amount of swap memory. Performance problems the author describes can be fixed 90% of the time by changing the dirty_background_ratio in the kernel as described here: https://linuxmaster.cc/s/improve_performance_and_fix_unresponsive_systems_under_heavy_diskio_load https://linuxmaster.cc/s/improve_performance_and_fix_unrespo...