On Thursday, June 4, 2020 11:54:37 PM MST Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ben Cotton wrote: > > > Swap is useful, except when it's slow. zram is a RAM drive that uses > > compression. Create a swap-on-zram during start-up. And no longer use > > swap partitions by default. > > > > == Owner == > > * Name: [[User:chrismurphy| Chris Murphy]] > > * Email: chrismurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > I do not think it is safe to assume that zram is sufficient to completely > replace disk swap. We do not know how much RAM is actually available on all > users' machines, and the compressibility of RAM contents depends on the > individual user's workloads. > > So, I am opposed to this change as is. > > > > # Install systemd rust-zram-generator† package. This does not enable > > swap-on-zram, it only makes the generator available. > > > Also -1 to adding something to the core system that is written in a language > for which we do not even have dynamic linking support. Or even real > static linking support, as opposed to packaging libraries as source code. > Kevin Kofler Agreed. Besides, GNOME already has this enabled, right? It's definitely not right for servers, as I brought up the last time this was thrown around. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
