Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: swap on zram

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:10 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Friday, June 5, 2020 12:03:03 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:

> > In discussions with both cloud and server folks, their use cases often
> > do not even create disk-based swap at all. A small swap-on-zram
> > provides all the benefits of inactive anonymous page eviction,
> > including reducing reclaim of file pages, without the black hole
> > performance problems of swap-on-drive.
> >
> > So yes it's well suited for these cases and the proposal does include
> > them. If they wish to be left out, that's up to those working groups.
> > It's possible to make sure /etc/systemd/zram-generator is not present.
>
> That doesn't seem to reflect reality. If you download the Server image right
> now, and go with its automatic partitioning scheme generation, it'll give you
> a swap partition on LVM. This is correct for most servers, not necessarily the
> LVM part, but having swap on disk.

The proposal recommends changing this. Cloud and Server folks will
decide what's best for their use cases, not me.

> It really seems like this is wrong for most of Fedora, but that individual
> parts, such as Fedora GNOME or IoT, should be left to make the decision for
> themselves, without affecting the rest.

Your opinion is noted. And now you don't have to keep repeating
yourself and swamping the list with extraneous emails that contribute
nothing new, correct? If you have some new insight, that's great.


-- 
Chris Murphy
_______________________________________________
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




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux