[Freedombox-discuss] [tahoe-dev] Recommendations for minimal RAM usage ?
On 12-03-06 at 09:25am, Pierre Alexandre SCHEMBRI wrote:
> about RAM usage, there a very interesting way to improve performance :
> gzipped swapping.
> There is a tool / or a kernel tool (don't remember which was it)
> called zram i think which allow to create a gzipped ramdisk upon boot,
> then it is possible to swap on it.
> This optimization is used on MeeGo (I got a N9 running with this optim.).
> However, below 64M, we can't expect great perf.
Please don't top-post.
You might find a recent discussion among Debian developers interesting -
see this and the surrounding thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00602.html
Here's a quote from above post:
> Mmmh, my feelings is that, actually, zram make sense only if you have
> plenty of free ram. In low ram PC like yours i expect every bit of ram
> should be precious and that you could easily end in what others have
> already said: more negative side effects than improvements.
- Jonas
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