On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:04:57PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > I didn't get any response from the EPEL list so forwarding here since the > change was discussed here anyway... > --- > > So with the discussion about moving to zram for swap on Fedora I wondered > if it was worth taking a look at for my CentOS 8 machine. > > I noticed that there was a build in Koji but it was deleted. Figuring there > was a reason but as yet undeterred I checked out master and built an el8 > rpm. > > Installed on my CentOS 8 machine and tried to start it up... Definitely > broken somehow. > > Figured out that it didn't like the command that created the zram > (zramctl). Turns out that (and this is a guess), that the kernel in CentOS > doesn't support lz4 compression. In fact none of the compression options > worked except "deflate". Not sure what the compression ratio is for it but > I now have zram using it. > > Second problem is that the configuration options in /etc/zram.conf seemed > to be ignored. Even though I specified a factor of 2 for the amount of ram > to use, it kept using the default in the systemd script of 3. So I just > changed the script and hardcoded it to 2048MB. Since I have no plans in > changing the amount of memory in that computer it really doesn't matter. There's multiple implementations available. /etc/zram.conf is from zram.rpm. Then there's zram-generator, and something else too. Without specifying which you installed, it's hard to say much. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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
