I have been working with Mark Verlinde, well actually he did the heavy lifting, to port zram to Centos... https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/markvnl/zram-swap/ A few of us are actively using it. Give it a try yourselves! As it is noarch, it should work on all Centos7 arch. On 10/7/18 1:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 10/7/18 11:57 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote: >> Too many questions together... ;-) >> >> El 7/10/18 a las 08:58, Robert Moskowitz escribió: >>> I have very recently learned about zram-swap. Fedora-29-arm is >>> using it. It supposedly makes a considerable difference even over >>> HD swap. >> Do you have a link for me to read about that? I'd like to see some >> numbers on performance, specially on the CPU, because small ARM >> devices are not exactly fast to compress. > > You could ask on the Fedora-arm list where Peter Robinson (I believe > he is part of the Fedora development with heavy presence in the arm > work) recently explained, kind of, how F29-arm is using it. > >>> >>> Since many (potential) users of Centos-arm do not have a ready HD, >>> perhaps we can switch the image from a physical partition to zram? >>> Or at least instructions to change to this on the wiki. >> Switch might be difficult, but maybe generate a "tech preview" >> alternative build. >> This is the link to how we create the images, maybe you could send >> me some changes to test >> https://github.com/CentOS/sig-core-AltArch/tree/master/image_build > > Minimally in the wiki, how to switch from a partition swap to zram. I > am working on learning more about it... > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev