Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions

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Hi Olav,

I haven't personally done it.  Seth outlines the configuration in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/105378/focus=105543

Stephen, can you add more detail from your experience?

Thanks!
Luigi




On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Luigi,

On 10/24/2013 6:12 PM, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Olav Haugan <ohaugan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Bob, Luigi,
>>
>> On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, could you take a try with zswap? Which can write pages to
>>> real swap device if compressed pool is full.
>>
>> zswap might not be feasible in all cases if you only have flash as
>> backing storage.
>
> Zswap can be configured to run without a backing storage.
>

I was under the impression that zswap requires a backing storage. Can
you elaborate on how to configure zswap to not need a backing storage?


Olav Haugan

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