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Ah yes, the old, "you should enable swap so that when your RAM fills up, you know about it when the disk starts thrashing and all I/O grinds to a near-halt." I

Ah yes, the old, "you should enable swap so that when your RAM fills up, you know about it when the disk starts thrashing and all I/O grinds to a near-halt." I mean, swap is useful, but that's not what it's for. Same is true for compressed RAM. If you want an alert for low available RAM, it seems like it would be better to write a script for that.

flashback2199 3y ago
> disk starts thrashing and all I/O grinds to a near-halt Nope, neither of those things happen when zram starts compressing ram. Nothing grinds to a near halt until the compressed RAM space is used up, it just slows down a little bit. Btw, compressed RAM via zram isnt swap, it's available as actual ram. It also increases the total amount of ram available. I don't think I need to make arguments in favor of ram compression since Windows and macOS both have ram compression by default.