On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:14 AM ElXreno <elxreno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Does this reduce your concern? > In a way, yes. Most of the time memory will be compressible, I agree, > but there are non-compressible data, and I'm only concerned about that. > > In my opinion, it's better not to set the zram size to 100% for > everyone. Whoever is sure that their data will be compressible can set > it to 100%. > > > Are you sure that this data is compressed in memory as well as the > > on-disk encoding? The editing operations themselves surely operate on > > uncompressed data, and then it's compressed upon being written to > > disk. > I'm not sure. But I've had a few times where zram didn't compress > anything and ended up freezing the system completely. Is earlyoom disabled on this system? It should send SIGTERM to something in this case - which is not the best UX as a hint that an adjustment needs to be made. But I want to make sure there isn't something else going wrong. -- 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
