What is the impact of changing /proc/sys/vm/swappiness on a system that has no swap configured?

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Issue

  • Customer does not want to configure a swap partition or a swap file and wanted to know the impact of changing /proc/sys/vm/swappniness sysctl parameters

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All Releases)

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