Debunking zswap and zram myths

https://literature.cafe/post/30096086

Debunking zswap and zram myths - literature.cafe

Lemmy

So, is the TL;DR “Don’t use zram. Use zswap only when you want to use swap.”?

More or less.

  • Zswap is better than zram because it’s integrated with the kernel. Swap in zram is more of a hack.
  • zram can kill your file cache unnecessarily, which leads to more disk reads.
  • Don’t use zram without an oom killer.
  • They’re working on zswap to not require any disk swap at all, basically killing the last reason why one might want to use zram over zswap.