[anyfoo]

I'm not an expert, but aren't you just reducing the choice of what pages can be offloaded from RAM? Without swap space, only file-backed pages can be written out to reclaim RAM for other uses (including caching). With swap space, rarely used anonymous memory can be written out as well.

Swap space is not just for overcommitting memory (in fact, I suspect nowadays it rarely ever is), but also for improving performance by maximizing efficient usage of RAM.

With 48GB, you're probably fine, but run a few VMs or large programs, and you're backing your kernel into a corner in terms of making RAM available for efficient caching.

[pezezin]

The point is to have so much RAM that you don't need to offload anything.