On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:04:57PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I didn't get any response from the EPEL list so forwarding here since the
> change was discussed here anyway...
> ---
> 
> So with the discussion about moving to zram for swap on Fedora I wondered
> if it was worth taking a look at for my CentOS 8 machine.
> 
> I noticed that there was a build in Koji but it was deleted. Figuring there
> was a reason but as yet undeterred I checked out master and built an el8
> rpm.
> 
> Installed on my CentOS 8 machine and tried to start it up... Definitely
> broken somehow.
> 
> Figured out that it didn't like the command that created the zram
> (zramctl). Turns out that (and this is a guess), that the kernel in CentOS
> doesn't support lz4 compression. In fact none of the compression options
> worked except "deflate". Not sure what the compression ratio is for it but
> I now have zram using it.
> 
> Second problem is that the configuration options in /etc/zram.conf seemed
> to be ignored. Even though I specified a factor of 2 for the amount of ram
> to use, it kept using the default in the systemd script of 3. So I just
> changed the script and hardcoded it to 2048MB. Since I have no plans in
> changing the amount of memory in that computer it really doesn't matter.

There's multiple implementations available. /etc/zram.conf is from zram.rpm.
Then there's zram-generator, and something else too. Without specifying
which you installed, it's hard to say much.

Zbyszek
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