zRam on Desktop?

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johnywhy
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zRam on Desktop?

Post#1 by johnywhy » 30 Mar 2017, 06:32

I noticed Kiosk offers zRam.
Is it possible to use zRam on Desktop?

thx

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Re: zRam on Desktop?

Post#2 by Bogomips » 01 Apr 2017, 00:34

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root@porteus:/home/guest# zramctl /dev/zram0 -s 112MiB
zramctl: /dev/zram0: No such device

root@porteus:/home/guest# modprobe zram
root@porteus:/home/guest# zramctl /dev/zram0 -s 112MiB
root@porteus:/home/guest# mkswap /dev/zram0
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 112 MiB (117436416 bytes)
no label, UUID=83487a1d-22ba-40f6-be52-91ecfea77525
root@porteus:/home/guest# swapon /dev/zram0
root@porteus:/home/guest# swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda11                              partition       130044  129952  -1
/dev/sda7                               partition       530108  136400  -2
/dev/zram0                              partition       114684  0       -3
:)

man zramctl

Also https://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documen ... v/zram.txt
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB

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Re: zRam on Desktop?

Post#3 by johnywhy » 01 Apr 2017, 01:50

Thx!

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