By the way, I recently discovered that you could use it in Ubuntu since 2012 (12.04). Just `apt-get install zram-config` and reboot, voilá. I'm using it both

By the way, I recently discovered that you could use it in Ubuntu since 2012 (12.04). Just `apt-get install zram-config` and reboot, voilá. I'm using it both on my laptop and desktop at work with 4Gb physical RAM. I have PyCharm and lots of tabs open in Chrome and it has to reach around ~2gb of compressed swap before it hits the disk. It doesn't even seem to slow down the machine in any noticeable way. A truly nice, little hidden gem.