On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:14 AM ElXreno <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Does this reduce your concern?
> In a way, yes. Most of the time memory will be compressible, I agree,
> but there are non-compressible data, and I'm only concerned about that.
>
> In my opinion, it's better not to set the zram size to 100% for
> everyone. Whoever is sure that their data will be compressible can set
> it to 100%.
>
> > Are you sure that this data is compressed in memory as well as the
> > on-disk encoding? The editing operations themselves surely operate on
> > uncompressed data, and then it's compressed upon being written to
> > disk.
> I'm not sure. But I've had a few times where zram didn't compress
> anything and ended up freezing the system completely.

Is earlyoom disabled on this system? It should send SIGTERM to
something in this case - which is not the best UX as a hint that an
adjustment needs to be made. But I want to make sure there isn't
something else going wrong.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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