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I find that for low RAM situations that zram is very handy and allows for a graceful reduction in performance under memory stress rather than a cliff edge that

I find that for low RAM situations that zram is very handy and allows for a graceful reduction in performance under memory stress rather than a cliff edge that you get with a swap partition.

panpanna 7y ago
zram has been replaced with some other technology (z-something, can't remember the name) that also compresses swap and removed duplicate pages.
- amaccuish 7y ago
  zswap?
  - koffiezet 7y ago
    And this is why many people like me stick to Mac. Yes there's a solution for it on Linux, but no I don't want to look for it, maintain it, and at some point when a new 'best solution' is available keep up to date with all that...
    - vetinari 7y ago
      On Linux, the distributions do that for you. You don't have to, but if you want, you can. On Mac, you can't, even if you want. So you won't see discussions like these, because Mac does not have that kind of visibility inside. If something is broken (and Mac has its share of broken things), you get to keep all the pieces.
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