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Memory compression (via zswap) has made a big difference for me, on Linux, when on a constrained device. It makes a lot of sense for desktop workloads where mo
by jewel 3y ago
Memory compression (via zswap) has made a big difference for me, on Linux, when on a constrained device. It makes a lot of sense for desktop workloads where most time is spent waiting for user input. For me it was a lot faster than swapping to disk, although with NVME drives that may no longer be the case.
I thought I had read when the M1 came out that they had memory compression turned on by default but I'm not an Apple user.
- zamadatix 3y agoMemory compression has been enabled macOS since Mavericks/2013. Windows, Android/ChromeOS, and a lot of big name Linux Distros (like Fedora/Ubuntu) all default to some form of memory compression support out of the box as well IIRC.
- kstrauser 3y agoIt's enabled on my 2023 MacBook Air, or at least Activity Monitor shows an amount of compressed memory.