<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Oct 12, 2018, at 13:28, Gordan Bobic <<a href="mailto:gordan@redsleeve.org" class="">gordan@redsleeve.org</a>> wrote:<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Because the zram bucket is compressed and thus requires typically half the amount of real RAM.</span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">So if you have 1GB of RAM and set up a 512MB zram for swap, those 512MB when completely used up will typically only consume 256MB of RAM. So you will end up with 768MB of actual RAM, + 512MB of swap = 1.25GB of RAM instead of 1GB.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Tweak ratios to suit your workload, but that's the basic gist of it.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="">Ah! Ok. That makes sense. Thank you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One more question: is there any benefit to configuring a system to use swap *beyond* that of increasing the the global memory space —e.g. more efficient memory management or better operati</div></body></html>