Honest question: why are we still defaulting to swap partitions in Linux distributions?
I love swap completely slowing down the process of reaching the threshold to trigger the OOM killer to be invoked (if at all, and hopefully not stuck in the limbo in-between), thrashing my NVMe or SSD with useless activity for several minutes into hours, to sit and watch a system be so dogged down, that you can't even log into a virtual tty without it timing out (all while the kernel is actually responsive to immediately respond to magic SysRq keycombos). It's great.
@arcanicanis @karolherbst so what's the magic alternative?
Let the kernel kill a process in an OOM situation and continue to run just fine? Use a userspace OOM killer earlier before the kernel has to step in?