How much swap?
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I’ve heard a lot of people say your swap should be 2x RAM… but do I really need 32GB of swap?

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Moreover I also have my swappiness set to 0 because I don’t want stuff swapped out of memory. If I need more memory I need more memory.

I don’t think swappiness has worked that way for a while now.

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

It does. I can vouch for it’s behavior in practice. My servers basically sit with the swap file unused, which isn’t the case when I set swappiness to a non-zedo value

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