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minus-square@jroid8link3•edit-23 months agoThis comment is how I learned about zram. Just one question, when is it used?
minus-square@AProfessionallinkEnglish4•edit-23 months agoFedora enables it on all systems with <4GB (maybe a bit less I forget). It’s trivial to enable/disable it and see if its helpful for your usage.
minus-square@Landless2029link4•3 months agoYep. I just looked it up. I assumed it was like windows page file but it’s ramdisk. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
minus-square@shadowintheday2linkEnglish2•3 months agoDepends on config, ArchWiki recommends optmizing some sysctl values to take advantage of it it generally starts kicking in after >60% RAM usage even with this config
That’d be over 1TB with zram on
This comment is how I learned about zram. Just one question, when is it used?
Fedora enables it on all systems with <4GB (maybe a bit less I forget). It’s trivial to enable/disable it and see if its helpful for your usage.
Yep. I just looked it up.
I assumed it was like windows page file but it’s ramdisk.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
Depends on config, ArchWiki recommends optmizing some sysctl values to take advantage of it
it generally starts kicking in after >60% RAM usage even with this config