Mastodawn

@dborch #zram unter #Linux ist im Endeffect auch nichts anderes nur halt sinnvoll implementiert.

Les prix de la #RAM vous stressent ?
Passez à #Linux, l'OS qui utilise toujours moins de mémoire pour en faire toujours plus.

#ZRAM a été amélioré, c'est un moyen d'avoir plus de mémoire en compressant ce qui s'y trouve sans que cela n'affecte les performances pour l'utilisateur.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-50p-Compress-Boost

New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50%

The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost.

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Benedikt Wi Mar 6

@geheimorga gibt #zram und #zswap https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap für moderne Systeme 😉

zswap - ArchWiki

bbₜᵤₓᵢ Feb 27

@Mathias

Ich habe gerade den Server getestet und konnte von außen via GeForce Now darauf zugreifen 👍 Zur Sicherheit habe ich #zram aktiviert, um den Arbeitsspeicher zu komprimieren. Das soll die Performance verbessern, da der Server nur 8 GB RAM hat. 12 GB wären optimal.

@dos This is going to be interesting, some pretty good #zram improvements got introduced along these version bumps.

Another one is scheduled for 7.0
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-MM

Linux 7.0 MM Changes Bring Some Very Nice Performance Optimizations

All of the memory management 'MM' related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window.

Vint Prox Feb 2

So, I like the perspective of optimizing swappiness on #Fedora, because I started to run out of memory as demands have grown. 8 GB simply doesn't cut it.

But according to biskitpagla, it's not recommended to take up more #ZRAM than my actual #RAM, because it would override all attempts at switching to #swap file in case ZRAM is exhausted.[1]

#ArchWiki has some config to make better use of ZRAM along with swappiness[2], so I'll take it.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/143w3kl/comment/muns4th/
[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram#Optimizing_swap_on_zram

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Julian

Feb 1

I personally have also installed Coolify on it. At first, I had Uptime Kuma installed manually but figured “why not use Coolify here as well…”.

I can still recommend enabling #zram to help a bit with the memory consumption.

Hackaday Jan 31

Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/

13 Jan 31

Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/
#Computerhacks #LinuxHacks #Debian #Linux #Ram #Ubuntu #Zram #Zramtools

Surviving The RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression

You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. If you’ve been priced out of new RAM you are g…

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Simon D.Dec 8

ZRAM compressed RAM swap
https://grimoire.d12s.fr/2025/zram_compressed_ram_swap.html

Ajouter de la RAM virtuelle à sa machine, avec une mémoire d’échange compressée.

#zram #grimcom

Zram compressed ram swap

Ajouter de la RAM virtuelle à sa machine, avec une mémoire d’échange compressée. The linux kernel comes with a zram module which provides the zramctl command. It allows to setup a virtual memory storage which content is stored compressed. This allows to store more things in RAM, at the …

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