zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.
  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So, is the TL;DR “Don’t use zram. Use zswap only when you want to use swap.”?

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      12·
      3 days ago

      More or less.

      • Zswap is better than zram because it’s integrated with the kernel. Swap in zram is more of a hack.
      • zram can kill your file cache unnecessarily, which leads to more disk reads.
      • Don’t use zram without an oom killer.
      • They’re working on zswap to not require any disk swap at all, basically killing the last reason why one might want to use zram over zswap.