[Arm-dev] Using zram-swap

[Gordan Bobic]

It depends on what you are running on that system. If you have 1GB of RAM
and want to run a desktop environment web browser, that'll go pretty poorly
without swap.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:10 PM Fred Gleason <fredg at paravelsystems.com>
wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2018, at 13:04, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote:
>
> Because bloatware and OOM killer?
>
>
> Can you elaborate on this please? FWIW, I have been configuring systems
> with no external mass storage to operate with no swap whatever for several
> years now, with no apparent ill effects. Why would this be poor practice?
>
> Cheers!
>
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