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Swapping to zram is just fine and it will improve experience on many machines.
by izacus 2y ago
Swapping to zram is just fine and it will improve experience on many machines.
- speed_spread 2y agoYeah, I agree. The memory-to-memory + modern CPU power makes it transparent or at least gives it a soft roll-off that IO based swap never achieves. But it's still a hack which too often is used by manufacturers to cheapen on RAM in machines. As the gas-powered engine people will say: "there's no replacement for displacement" (I wont push the analogy comparing zram to turbocharging but, you know, they both deal with "compression"...)