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Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do either of these reduce the effect of (spinning) drive thrashing and
> desktop latency increasing when swapping takes place?

I never made any benchmarks. I just heard that some people are using
the combination of both to avoid swap altogether (or only have an
fallback swap which is used only in emergency situations although
swappiness values are kept normal).