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and subject line Bug#983000: fixed in zram-tools 0.3.5-1~exp1
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regarding zram-tools: Ship better defaults to suite swap on all hardware
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Package: zram-tools
Version: 0.3.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist
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Dear Maintainer,
Please consider updating the defaults to make the package suitable for
installation on most Debian machines.
swap-on-zram has the potential to replace conventional swap. Fedora has done
this[1] by default not just for IoT devices but even for desktops. In
FreedomBox, I have proposed to use it as the default swap solution[2].
The current defaults lead to a hard-coded 256MiB of swap space. This is useful
for single board computers with about 512MiB of RAM but not very useful for
other machines. Instead, consider making that 50% of the available RAM. On
systems that don't typically use swap, this will only incur a 0.1% overhead[3].
RAM will not be get pre-allocated for the zram device. It is only allocated
when necessary.
Further, the configuration file /etc/default/zramswap has incorrect description
for PERCENT parameter. It says, "Specifies the amount of RAM that should be
used for zram based on a percentage the total amount of available memory This
takes precedence and overrides SIZE below". The disksize kernel parameter for
the zram device computed using the above configuration option is about the
amount of space available in the newly create block device. The amount of RAM
that the device will consume depends on compression. Typically 1:2 compression
is expected. So, if PERCENT is set to 50% on a 8GiB machine, then 4GiB of swap
space will be available and on an average case that will consume 2GiB of RAM.
What I am proposing is this:
- -# Specifies the amount of RAM that should be used for zram
- -# based on a percentage the total amount of available memory
+# Specifies the size of swap space that should be created with the zram device
+# computed as a percentage of the total amount of available memory.
# This takes precedence and overrides SIZE below
- -#PERCENT=50
+PERCENT=50
Thank you for packaging and maintaining zram-tools. Also consider systemd-zram-
generator[4].
Links:
1) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM
2) https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/merge_requests/2033
3)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-
guide/blockdev/zram.rst
4) https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/
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Sunil
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages zram-tools depends on:
ii bc 1.07.1-2+b1
zram-tools recommends no packages.
zram-tools suggests no packages.
- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/zramswap changed [not included]
- -- no debconf information
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Source: zram-tools
Source-Version: 0.3.5-1~exp1
Done: Jonathan Carter <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
zram-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> (supplier of updated zram-tools package)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0200
Source: zram-tools
Architecture: source
Version: 0.3.5-1~exp1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonathan Carter <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jonathan Carter <[email protected]>
Closes: 983000 1021808 1068854
Changes:
zram-tools (0.3.5-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
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* Trim trailing whitespace.
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[ Jonathan Carter ]
* New upstream release (Closes: #1068854, #983000)
* Fix package description (Closes: #1021808)
* Update standards version to 4.7.0
* Update copyright years
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