R: Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-09 Thread Fabio Pedretti
>it's a definite win for large configurations infrequent swapping, much >more additional RAM), as well as for small configurations where there's >a lot of swapping (faster than swapping). > >I wrote and use an init script that breaks up the zswap into n devices, >1 per cpu execution thread, to f

Re: Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > 1. Traditional swap on hard drive is still used and suggested, zram is a > better alternative and a complement to it, so it may for sure be useful to > everyone who actually use swap on hard drive. I am not sure that zram makes good use of a

R: Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-08 Thread Fabio Pedretti
>Da: dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com >On 7 December 2012 22:32, Fabio Pedretti wrote: >> It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package >> set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running and >> installing Ubuntu. It should be a win for every c

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 08.12.2012, 00:03 + schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: > On 7 December 2012 22:32, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > > It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This > > package > > set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running > > and >

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 7 December 2012 22:32, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package > set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running > and > installing Ubuntu. It should be a win for every configuration. Since kernel > 3.8

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread John Moser
On 12/07/2012 05:44 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: -1. I am not on a netbook and even my laptop have 12gb of Ram. It would be nice if Ubuntu did detect your ram and decide but not force it on people like me who aren't memory constrained. In an abundant memory situation, the device is set up and

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Jordon Bedwell
-1. I am not on a netbook and even my laptop have 12gb of Ram. It would be nice if Ubuntu did detect your ram and decide but not force it on people like me who aren't memory constrained. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Fabio Pedretti wrote: > It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread John Moser
it's a definite win for large configurations infrequent swapping, much more additional RAM), as well as for small configurations where there's a lot of swapping (faster than swapping). I wrote and use an init script that breaks up the zswap into n devices, 1 per cpu execution thread, to fully

Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

2012-12-07 Thread Fabio Pedretti
It would be nice if Ubuntu could include zram-config by default. This package set up compressed RAM swap space and can lower RAM requirements for running and installing Ubuntu. It should be a win for every configuration. Since kernel 3.8 the zram module is out of staging, I am using it since pre