On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:47 AM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > It's more like having a TARDIS in your room if you understand that > reference. It takes up some space, but it's bigger on the inside. :-) >
Sorry not a Doctor Who fan. It's way too convoluted a plot for me. :-) > Although in this case, it does take up more space the more you stuff in > it, but it holds more than the space it takes up. > Exactly my point. It's like saying that you are conserving the water in your house by using more water. Am I the only one who thinks that idea is crazy ? The RAM pages that need to get paged out get compressed and kept in > memory. I suppose you could consider that my system with 12GB of RAM > and 12GB of zram configured could become an 8GB system with 12GB of used > swap. 20GB of virtual memory but still not using the disk. > Why page out to RAM ? You are still blocking up RAM that other applications could still have used. I see swap as means by which RAM is freed up by the kernel writing out pages to the disk. But what you are saying is that if I have 8 GB of RAM and let's say 3 GB is actually full of zram swap pages, then, by that logic, applications will have 3GB less RAM to operate than if the kernel had written out to disk. I mean the RAM is still BEING USED. Am I correct ? Do you see why this may not be a good idea ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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