Ubuntu
zram-config package

zram does not return free memory

Bug #1266161 reported by 3DRaven
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zram-config (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

After freeing memory paging file, zram does not return free memory.
To resolve a bug need to add in the startup script "-d" option to "swapon"
be so
swapon -d -p 5 /dev/zram${DEVNUMBER}
In the file
/etc/init/zram-config.conf

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in zram-config (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Oibaf (oibaf) wrote :

Can you elaborate a bit more? official zram kernel doc doesn't suggest this:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt

Can you eventually also open a bug on kernel bugzilla explaining and asking to update zram.txt?
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

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