Utilize zram on low memory boots
Bug #943470 reported by
Ryan Finnie
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Finnix |
Fix Released
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Low
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Finnix developers |
Bug Description
Swap-over-zram would be useful for increasing effective memory on low memory systems. However, it is confusing (it shows 100% swap being available), so it's probably not best to always use it by default. Say, 64MB or less would trigger it automatically, but could be forced on/off by boot command line.
Busybox will need to be recompiled to add mkswap.
udev isn't available at initramfs time, so /dev/zram0 will need to be created manually, similar to /dev/guesses entries.
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Changed in finnix: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
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assignee: | Ryan Finnie (fo0bar) → Finnix developers (finnix-dev) |
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status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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zram support has been added to the initrd. It will automatically be activated on systems with <= 128MB memory, and can be manually enabled or disabled with the "zram" or "nozram" boot options.