On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:30 AM, Michael Stahl <mstahl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what's the point of putting swap onto a hard disk in the first place, > with today's RAM sizes (or even 10 years ago) of GBs, when swap is read > in unpredictable random order that incurs 10ms of latency each time? It suggests maybe zram to obviate the need for either a swap device or file; at least on the workstation product. Maybe the other products would prefer zswap, or just leaving things as they are. > > even worse, the most memory intensive applications on most users' > desktop is the web browser, which is garbage collected, and there is the > well known problem that there are no interfaces in POSIX that would > enable swapping of a GC'd heap to have acceptable performance. It'd be interesting to see if zram suffers from the same problem during memory pressure. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
