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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now... by kaba0 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:33AM (#29564101)
Unused RAM is useless though. The OS better cache some useful stuff there and evict when something else needs that.

If you are low on RAM and on Linux I really recommend getting zram, which will compress memory pages making swapping less needed.

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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now... by carlhjerpe on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @06:46AM (#29564657)
I have 40GB RAM (Weird number indeed, 8GB soldered, 1x 32GB stick) in my machine. The problem I have is that even with 2 WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0 NVME in RAID1 it takes awhile for the machine to hibernate and resume from hibernation, It's faster to boot the system cold (but then I don't have state).

I've been reading but never really figured out. Can ZSWAP or ZRAM write compressed to disk somehow too?

Thanks! :)

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