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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by the_pwner224 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:48PM (#46369302)
It takes a solid 45 seconds for me to enable zram (compressed RAM as swap) on a fresh Arch install. I know that doesn't solve the issue for 99% of people who don't even know what zram is / have no idea how to do it / are trying to do it for the first time, but it would be pretty easy for someone to enable that in a distro. I wouldn't be shocked if it is already enabled by default in Ubuntu or Fedora.
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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by johnny22 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:46PM (#46370391)
that just pushes away the problem ,it doesn't solve it. I still hit that limit when i ran a big compile while some other programs were using a lot of memory.
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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by m4rtink on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:51PM (#46370427)
Zram has been enabled on Fedora by default since 2020:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM

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Re:Meta Is Using the Linux Scheduler Designed for Valve's St... by MrDrMcCoy on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:53PM (#46372586)
Zswap is arguably better. It confers most of the benefits of zram swap, plus being able to evict to non-RAM if cache becomes more important or if the situation is dire. The only times I use zram are when all I have to work with for storage is MMC, which is too slow and fragile to be written to unless absolutely necessary.
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