Re: How to use zram ?
On Thursday 28 September 2017 09:58:39 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 09:51:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 September 2017 05:47:56 Pierre Couderc wrote:
> > > I have found no howto for zram under debian, nor even the word
> > > "zram" in the archives of this list !
> > >
> > > I have tried to use zramctl but it refuses with :
> >
> > A better question from me might be, what is it?
>
> It seems to be a way to swap out to "compressed RAM"[1] (sloppy, I
> know, but you hopefully get the idea).
>
I do have the kernel module, but not the zramctl. One is not useful w/o
the other. But I learned something from this thread. Thanks.
> Cheers
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
>
> -- tomás
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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