Do we really need swap on modern systems?
Something seems to be seriously wrong with the swap implementation on modern systems.<p>20 years ago on Windows 98 it just started swapping, but it was no big deal. If something became too slow to be usable, you could just press ctrl+alt+del and kill that swapped program and everything worked fine afterwards.<p>On the other hand, my modern linux laptop, it starts swapping, and it swaps and swaps and you can do nothing, not even move the mouse, till 30 minutes later something crashes.