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Linux Zswap Still Aiming For Compressed Swap Caching
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Can someone with some insight relate how Zswap differs from zRam? Sounds like the only difference is zSwap compresses memory as its being written to swap (if I understand correctly), while zRam uses a separate "compressed ram swap" before falling back to the standard swap...
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This is definitely a good technology, if it works. I have no idea of the amount of code this adds to the kernel, and how critical sneaky bugs it may yield. And more code = more errors.
Also,
Some of us have laptops and cannot upgrade the memory since there aren't enough slots.
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TBH, I really never saw the purpose of swap-caches.
Before you start a rant, I want to clear up that, when you have enough RAM, you don't really need a Swap-Partition.
Moreover, it wears out SSD-drives which should be avoided. Considering memory has turned very cheap in the last few years, I myself really recommend you to just buy your 16Gb-sticks and are good to go without putting to much IO-load on your hard-drive.
Even when you use a distribution like Gentoo, you can easily turn the Makeopts to 8 simultaneous tasks (on i7) without reaching the memory limit (only 8 Gb Max.).
Nevertheless, compressing the swap-file is a great concept and I am looking forward to what it will bring.
If you have a completely different opinion on this topic, please let me know!
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Linux Zswap Still Aiming For Compressed Swap Caching
Phoronix: Linux Zswap Still Aiming For Compressed Swap Caching
A second version of the Zswap patch-set for the Linux kernel was published this week. The Zswap patches provide compressed swap caching support to compress pages in the process of being swapped and compresses them into a dynamically allocated RAM-backed memory pool...
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