Your point about opt-in makes me wonder if my smaller VMs and VPSs would benefit. This recent one-pager covers the ‘compression can help but not always’ bracket

Your point about opt-in makes me wonder if my smaller VMs and VPSs would benefit. This recent one-pager covers the ‘compression can help but not always’ brackets you’ve noted. https://benad.me/blog/2021/02/23/ram-compression-on-linux/ https://benad.me/blog/2021/02/23/ram-compression-on-linux/ > Still, unless you frequently use the swap device on your Linux system, it may not be worthwhile to reserve a large amount of memory to a zram device. I know how to view current swap usage and will check if there’s historical usage in syslog or the like.