I'll do some testing this weekend by mounting an SSHFS as my swap partition and removing all but a 256MB RAM module then opening several dozen instances of FireFox. My calculations show that this will have terrible performance but I want to ensure that my software engineering is robust.
Testing your assumptions is something that you're supposed to do when you hit a wall, not when you're driving through a field.
Testing your assumptions is something that you're supposed to do when you hit a wall, not when you're driving through a field.