Unless one have the latest SSDs on a server to tolerate occasional spikes in memory zram makes more sense. Just configure it to use lz4 compressor. This way eve

Unless one have the latest SSDs on a server to tolerate occasional spikes in memory zram makes more sense. Just configure it to use lz4 compressor. This way even with halve of the memory compressed the system remains somewhat responsive and if the compression no longer helps, then killing the memory hog is probably the right thing.