What’s ZRAM?
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 hours agoAnd set up ZRAM.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
tal@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
One of the mechanisms for compressing memory in Linux. Trades CPU time for more effectively having more RAM Recent versions of Fedora apparently have it on by default.
I’ve read that zswap, another mechanism, is preferable on newer systems with SSD; that only compresses pages going to swap.
Probably someone should try benchmarking them for various workloads if systems are going to be running on much less memory for a while. Was more of an edge case thing that not many people cared about, but if operating with less memoey is suddenly more important, might have broader interest.
On Linux, also possible to opt for lighter-on-memory versions of a lot of software that you’re kinda committing to using the Microsoft-provided version of on Windows.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Most everything on the desktop is going to be light on ram except the web browser and electron apps (i.e. web browsers). Games use a lot too, but thats less of an issue because you don’t tend to multitask as much with games. Using onetab or some other way of limiting browser tabs severely helpa a lot.
NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
ZRAM is real. Even on computers with lots of ram it lets the os compress and tuck away memory that a process is hoarding. When I start using android studio all these long-running election process get 1/2 their memory swapped out to disk, and evidently they never really needed it because days later I still see lots of their memory swapped out.