Try to use zram memory compression with zstd compression algorithm if your kernel supports it or at least with lz4hc. I use this setup to compile Chromium and r

Try to use zram memory compression with zstd compression algorithm if your kernel supports it or at least with lz4hc. I use this setup to compile Chromium and run few memory-hungry processes and the system is responsive during compilation. Here is free -h output: total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15Gi 6.6Gi 4.0Gi 295Mi 4.8Gi 8.3Gi Swap: 27Gi 10Gi 17Gi Note that Swap is just a piece of compressed memory. I have no real swap and sappiness is set to 100%.