So I should throw away my 5-year-old notebook that's still working perfectly fine just because the RAM is soldered in? Doesn't sound like efficient resource usage (both money and rare earths).
Do you use a laptop? I do and I'm using swap space right now. I would like to buy a laptop with 32 or 64 Gigs of RAM but I can't as most(all?) laptop makers don't ship with a memory controller that permits more than 16 Gigs of RAM. And I can afford to buy more RAM.
I usually peak at 34GB, unless I have reason (like needing/wanting to enable full hibernation) to use 66GB, 130GB, etc.
Physical? VM? Cloud?
I've never seen an environment with more than a couple carefully-tuned machines that didn't run swap on every last one
You running an AWS data center?