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I assume I should get rid of most of the swap. I also read somewhere to increase... swappiness of zram?

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[–] ExplodeyWolf 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I think I might have thought zram was similar to swap, I didn't realize it takes up ram. Is there a way to see how much ram it's using? What do you think I should set my zram amount to(and how do I change the zram amount, I'm using zram-config)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Zram is basically a compressed swap device located in your ram. You can check the usage by running zramctl.

I would recommend setting mem_limit to 10 GB or disk_size to 40GB and algorithm to lz4.

https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config#example-configuration

[–] ExplodeyWolf 2 points 1 year ago

Which part is the usage?

[–] ExplodeyWolf 2 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config#example-configuration

This link says that configuration is stored in a file that doesn't exist, should I make it?