Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Let's use ZRAM! Message-ID : <25800.42718.707224.847181@orion.rgrjr.com> Date & Time: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:31:58 -0700 [BR] == Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com> has written: BR> From: Masaru Nomiya <nomiya@lake.dti.ne.jp> BR> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:49:18 +0900 BR> . . . MN> Wikiepdia also says the following; MN> Using zram also results in significantly reduced I/O for MN> Linux systems that require swapping. MN> Is there any system that does not swapping,I wonder...? BR> Apparently, mine. My desktop has 8GB of RAM, and today I noticed BR> (thanks to this thread) that I have been running without any swap. This BR> turned out to be simply because I forgot to configure one when I chose BR> the disk partitioning when installing 15.5. Looking at /etc/fstab on my BR> 15.4 and 15.3 installations shows that I forgot there as well, so it BR> appears that I've been running without swap for at least several years BR> now, and never noticed. Which pretty much proves that I haven't needed BR> it. Which is just as well, since I don't have an SSD. Hmmm, there it is.... Could you show the result of; $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --