Ubuntu
zram-tools package

zramswap ignores defaults file

Bug #2058054 reported by Daniel Brown on 2024-03-15

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	zram-tools (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The /usr/sbin/zramswap script sources /etc/defaults/zramswap but then fails to use the variables set there -- specifically "PERCENTAGE" and "ALLOCATION"

The script doesn't have any mention of "ALLOCATION" whatsoever, but does check for "PERCENT" vs "PERCENTAGE" as is used in the defaults file - this means it always defaults to 256M no matter what is set in /etc/default/zramswap.

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Daniel Brown (brauhausdc) wrote on 2024-03-15:

Edited zramswap script with wlog debugging Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Daniel Brown (brauhausdc) wrote on 2024-03-15:

Also looks like zram-tools and zram-config have some conflicts. Would be great to consolidate these into one package.

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Daniel Brown (brauhausdc) wrote on 2024-03-15:

It certainly would be helpful if Ubuntu would/could consolidate down to just one working recommended package and remove the others to avoid conflicts. zram-tools appears to be a 0.x release and doesn't seem to have had any updates in a while so it would seem like a candidate to be removed, esp if its not going to get fixed.