On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:43 AM, <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > On 17-05-24 at 05:34, Rich Freeman wrote: > [..] >> Others have mentioned zram. I've used it, but unless something has >> changed one of its limitations is that it can't give up memory. That >> is less of an issue if you're using swap since it can be swapped out >> if idle. However, if you're not using swap then you're potentially >> giving up a chunk of RAM to do it, though less RAM than a tmpfs if it >> is full most of the time (which I doubt is typically the case). > Seems to work fine here (with kernels newer than the late 3.x when I started > using zram): >
Thanks. Useful to know. Perhaps something changed. Then again, I don't think I actually tested it so it could have also been misinformation somewhere. -- Rich
