[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs]

2017-05-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 25 May 2017 11:46:45 -0700 schrieb Ian Zimmerman : > On 2017-05-24 19:05, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > To get in line with Rich Freeman: I didn't want to imply that zswap > > only works with swap, neither that tmpfs only works with swap. Both > > work without. But if you

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs]

2017-05-25 Thread Martin Vaeth
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > 1. How does it know which swap device to use as backing store, if any? My understanding is that zswap is lower level: only in the moment when a page _would_ be stored, the zswap code is called. That's why activating zsawp has absolutely no effect if