On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 03:29:47PM -0500, Brian Conway wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2024, at 2:48 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hi Kirill, > > I don't include a swap partition on the routers in the field as I > > don't want them swapping to disk, we over specify the hardware so that > > memory exhaustion is (should be anyway) not a concern. > > > > so im assuming the lack of a swap partition means that this would not > > be an issue (in my deployment scenario) > > That matches my experience.
If you're using X86 then lack of a swap partition shouldn't be an issue. We've been running X86 machines in production without swap for many years. On some non-X86 archs, (E.G. arm64), we have seen issues with having no swap configured, even without memory exhaustion. This has been discussed on the lists before.
