Re: zram swap on Desktop

2012-03-06 Thread Thibaut Brandscheid
Talking about speed - what about 'preload'. Is there a reason why it is not installed by default in Ubuntu, would it make sense to have it by default? 2012/3/6 Phillip Susi > I think you are still using the older terminology. The pa

Re: zram swap on Desktop

2012-03-05 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 03:50 AM, John Moser wrote: > I'm pretty sure zram will be superceded by zcache on freeswap. > zcache is a tmem backend, freeswap and CleanCache are freemem > frontends. Any backend can be used on any frontend, so when (if) the > freeswa

Re: zram swap on Desktop

2012-03-03 Thread John Moser
On 03/03/2012 12:05 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 02/27/2012 08:58 PM, John Moser wrote: I believe that swap space is only actually freed when the memory it is backing is freed. In other words, if the process frees the memory, the swap is freed, but when the page is read back in from swap, it is