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Re: How to use zram ?

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to use zram ?
Date 2017-09-28 17:50 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This sounds handy on a memory starved machine. And at 8GB in this 
> machine, I'm still using swap, with a 13 hour uptime, 22megs almost as 
> soon as I'd rebooted, and still 22. Which I don't fully grok, htop says 
> 22 megs used for swap, and only about 60% of that 8GB in use.

Freeing up the memory used by idle daemons and other layabouts lets the
system devote more memory to disk caching.

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How to use zram ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2017-09-28 11:50 +0200
  Re: How to use zram ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-28 12:00 +0200
    Re: How to use zram ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2017-09-28 12:30 +0200
      Re: How to use zram ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-28 14:10 +0200
      Re: How to use zram ? David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 14:20 +0200
        Re: How to use zram ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2017-09-28 16:50 +0200
      Re: How to use zram ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-28 17:00 +0200
  Re: How to use zram ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-28 16:00 +0200
    Re: How to use zram ? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-28 16:20 +0200
      Re: How to use zram ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-28 16:40 +0200
        Re: How to use zram ? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-28 17:50 +0200
          Re: How to use zram ? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-09-28 17:50 +0200
        Re: How to use zram ? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-28 18:10 +0200
          Re: How to use zram ? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-28 19:20 +0200
      Re: How to use zram ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2017-09-28 17:00 +0200
        Re: How to use zram ? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 17:20 +0200
    Re: How to use zram ? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-28 18:00 +0200
  Re: How to use zram ? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-28 16:00 +0200
    Re: How to use zram ? Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu> - 2017-09-28 17:00 +0200

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