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New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
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The graph is on a logarithmic scale btw

Configuration Before series (ms) With series (ms)
1 vCPU 22.3 (21.6-22.6) 0.97 (0.72-1.4)
8 vCPUs 314 (97-2542) 7.0 (5.0-98)
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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah I think I understand, too. You're increasing the swapping by introducing an area in RAM that is no longer usable as regular RAM, but you're also compressing, which "increases" the available RAM, so to speak. ๐Ÿ˜… At the cost of CPU of course.

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