[Solved] [Help] Should I use zram? (sh.itjust.works)

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Hello, I came across zram recently and I'd like to know if I should use it, my laptop only has ~4GB of ram, and for the most part it'll only stutter when I open multiple programs or a game, so would zram be adequate in my case?

Also, would the compressing and decompressing have a significant impact on my cpu?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, and consider using zstd (if it's not the default on your distribution) and be pretty aggressive with the disk size since it has a high compression ratio. I normally set it to 100% (so zram disk size = physical RAM size), but you can experiment with different values.

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