I have 6G of core and 4G of swap. If using more memory makes browsing faster, I'm all for it. Memory is cheap. CPU time is expensive.
For reference: 24G of DDR3 costs about $220 these days.
For reference: 24G of DDR3 costs about $220 these days.
If a process needs (or pretends to need) that much memory, the swapping will just kill the performance, and the machine gets unresponsive. I rather have the OOM killer do its job, have a few processes dying and be able to continue using the machine.
As far as I'm aware, there's no other method to disable the default Windows behaviour of swapping out programs even when sufficient RAM is available.
But still, the app has to run on real machines today. So its worth a "sweeping up" pass before release, to fix gross oversight and bugs that leak/use CPU egregiously.