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Ok, so zram is the magic "memory grower". That's orthogonal to the kernel patch and not really swapless like in the patch description. One of my low end Linux p
by usr1106 5y ago
Ok, so zram is the magic "memory grower". That's orthogonal to the kernel patch and not really swapless like in the patch description. One of my low end Linux phones uses zram. The phone is slow under load, but I have not done any analysis what is the bottleneck.
I have smaller eMMC-based laptops with not much RAM (Don't remember whether 1 or 2 GB) Not in heavy use, but I'll bookmark your reply for testing on one of those. It feels pretty wasteful to use 4 or 8 GB for some basic Web browsing these days. Resource efficiency like American cars from the late 1950s...
- ValdikSS 5y agoNo-no, le9 is very useful both with swap (physical or zram) and without. With zram it makes swapping process seamless (no lags when swapping), with physical swap on HDD it makes it a bit softer (on regular kernel both swapping and file reloading upon swapping occurs, making the process even more slower; with le9 it's mostly only swapping), and without swap it prevents hard thrashing and freeze of the PC, (additionally) making OOM killer to trigger much earlier than it usually triggers.