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tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Not a hardware fix, but there’s memory compression. It sounds like Windows 11 defaults to having memory compression on:
xda-developers.com/little-known-windows-feature-h…
Linux has zswap and zram to do memory compression, which I’ve mentioned here recently. I don’t know of any distros that turn it on by default. It sounds from recent reading like for modern systems wirh SSD swap, zswap is probably preferable.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 5 days ago
As far as I know, Fedora turns it on, but only for a percentage of the memory since the performance hit is only slightly better than using swap.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Ah, thanks. Looks like they enabled zram in Fedora 33:
fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM#Why_not…?