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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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In my testing, zram has much, much better compression than zswap.
The points about LRU inversion, cgroups, and so on are valid, but at the end of the day, I don’t really care. I was able to open as many firefox tabs as I wanted with zram, but I could not do so with zswap, and that’s what matters to me.
The author of a blogpost is a facebook engineer. Millions of ultra high performance Linux servers are a very different usecase than a single desktop. It’s perfectly reasonable for a solution for one to not be appropriate for the other.
Copied from my previous comment about this where ISO also gave a similar reply and was met with a similar response lmao.
It's not the opinion itself, it's just the attitude. Your comment is a perfect example of what I consider a good reply as you brought both hard data and some nuance in expressing how you formed your opinion