https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27964#M1093 <P>I assume this is for managed? Actually most Java exports would agree that swapping is a very bad idea for Java processes and recommend to turn off swap on a system that runs java.</P><P>Java accesses its memory in a "throughput" fashion, meaning there is very little that can be swapped out that is not needed soon after.</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:45:39 GMT michael_kopp 2017-06-09T08:45:39Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27962#M1091 <P>Why the swapoff? Most experts agree that having no swap is not a good idea. You waste memory and when memory is filled your system crashes. So why this decision wasting lost of buffer space,</P><P>KR Henk </P> Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:05:35 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27962#M1091 henk_stobbe 2017-06-08T10:05:35Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27964#M1093 <P>I assume this is for managed? Actually most Java exports would agree that swapping is a very bad idea for Java processes and recommend to turn off swap on a system that runs java.</P><P>Java accesses its memory in a "throughput" fashion, meaning there is very little that can be swapped out that is not needed soon after.</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:45:39 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27964#M1093 michael_kopp 2017-06-09T08:45:39Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27965#M1094 <P>Hi Michael,</P><P>Yes this is for managed, thx!</P><P>KR Henk</P> Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:01:42 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dynatrace-Managed-Q-A/The-purpose-of-swapoff/m-p/27965#M1094 henk_stobbe 2017-06-09T09:01:42Z