Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions
by SomeoneFromCA on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:14PM
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No one mentioned zswap. It is awesome, if you have at least semimodern CPU. It feels like you have 15% more ram than you actually do.
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Not just on a semi-modern CPU. I used it on a Zipit Z2 (truly ancient PXA270 Arm SoC with 32 mb of RAM) that I was using as a Debian PDA, and it was a godsend. Probably a little slower, but when you only have 32 megabytes of RAM, that's really the bottleneck you care about.
(I don't think Debian will run with so little memory anymore.)
Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions
by rcthompson on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:58PM
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One thing I would love to see is a discussion of how to tune the swap system (e.g. what value to use for vm.swappiness) in cases where zram/zswap are enabled.