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  1. Bug #381059
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 381059

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

I believe zram-config can be shipped unconditionally. It will decrease performance on a hypothetical machine with a slow CPU (or low memory bandwidth) and a really fast storage, but I couldn't find any such devices on the consumer market.

An Intel paper suggests that zramswap-like setups are beneficial even for ARM boards, which have slow CPUs and low memory bandwidth: http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_ppt.pdf