no swap makes system slower - why?

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/11/04 08:08 (GMT-0200) Felipe Figueiredo apparently typed:

> Questions: 
> 1- Since swap access is slow (disk) compared to real RAM, I would expect that 
> a swapless setup to be faster.

There is no such thing as a swapless setup. If the system wants to swap and
there is no swap partition, it will swap to a file on /.
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