My experience without zram has been that running out of ram almost always crashes (without a swap partition) or locks up (with a swap partition) my entire compu

My experience without zram has been that running out of ram almost always crashes (without a swap partition) or locks up (with a swap partition) my entire computer. My experience with it has been that running out of ram almost always slowly degrades performance, but keeps the system responsive. I haven't noticed any noticeable CPU overhead when not running out of ram - nor should there be any. It is the default on windows and mac for good reason. I'm a pretty strong believer that nearly all desktop linux users, and most server users, would benefit from it as well.