Comment by godelski

Defaults for swapping and paging unfortunately aren't great. But it's easy to adjust. There's lots of information and fwiw, talking with an LLM I found that they ended up suggesting similar things to what I set for my system (pre LLMs). Of course, don't blindly trust, but it was one thing I did to test them (and expected to be relatively good considering the amount of available information, though hard to sort through, especially for non experts). On the other side, many modern distros are getting better defaults. The difficulty here is that the right values are wrong for most setups and Linux is targeting a much broader range of hardware than windows. Though that's where distros come in