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New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2026
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If you really don't want any swap then you can use zRAM. I've heard even just a little bit of swap space (even zRAM) can help a lot. Note that when you set up zRAM, if you set it to 16GB that does not mean it will cap at 16GB of RAM usage, it means it will cap at 16GB of data pre-compression and its actual RAM usage will likely be closer to 6GB when full. And when it's empty it doesn't use any RAM.
That sounds great. I'll keep that in mind when I reach the point where my large RAM size becomes obsolete. ๐