What is the advantage of zswap over using zram for swap? They sound very similar.
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Yes thanks for the rundown on these different schemes guys. So, as someone who hasn't used swap at all since all my machines had atleast 4gb ram I'm mostly interested zcache from what I'm reading here. Is it anywhere near getting into mainline?
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Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostYes thanks for the rundown on these different schemes guys. So, as someone who hasn't used swap at all since all my machines had atleast 4gb ram I'm mostly interested zcache from what I'm reading here. Is it anywhere near getting into mainline?
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Originally posted by YAFU View PostOh! I hope Zswap will improve swap and system performance.
Everyone knows that especially in Linux, when the swap is used the system performance is disastrous. I know this should be normal because the speed of the hard disk, but Linux swap have worse performance compared to other systems who do heavy usage of the paging file. I think this problem is well known in Linux because there is much written on the internet to avoid the swap usage changing the swappiness.
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Originally posted by Ferdinand View PostIn my experience Linux is much better with harddisk access than Windows. Windows constantly wants to access your harddisk. Linux tries to avoid swap as much as possible.Last edited by YAFU; 22 December 2012, 12:23 AM.
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