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[-] jroid8@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This comment is how I learned about zram. Just one question, when is it used?

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yep. I just looked it up.

I assumed it was like windows page file but it's ramdisk.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

[-] shadowintheday2@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

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