On 12/5/20 11:45 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:47 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx <mailto:samuel@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: But what you are saying is that if I have 8 GB of RAM and let's say 3 GB is actually full of zram swap pages, then, by that logic, applications will have 3GB less RAM to operate than if the kernel had written out to disk. I mean the RAM is still BEING USED.
Sure, but by that point you've also paged out 9GB of data.
Am I correct ? Do you see why this may not be a good idea ?
As Chris keeps saying, there is a tradeoff. But it's a very useful tradeoff. You use a little bit of RAM to store a lot more pages of swap. It's very fast to swap out and very fast to swap back in. You really need to do some research and understand how it works before you reject it so thoroughly. It was made the default for Fedora (at least for workstation and maybe the other desktop spins), so you might want to consider that there are some very valid reasons to use it.
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