If needed, i can resend my conversation with swiftgeek in this thread. But i think, all already explained in comments to zramswap On May 23, 2014 8:57 PM, "JM" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am using the package zramswap 1.1.1 from AUR and I was surprised a few > days ago to see > an update making it bump from 1.1.1 to 2.8.1 (and 2.9.1 since yesterday), > so I have taken > a close look at the PKGBUILD then I headed to AUR: > > someone has created a script having for name systemd-swap, and published > it on two > different pages, the zramswap page where it has the name of zramswap -- > and on a > systemd-swap AUR page where it had the name "systemd-swap", removed very > recently and > ported to Community: > > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/systemd-swap > > as per the last comment on the zramswap page: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zramswap/ > > Currently, this is what zramswap used to look like: > http://pastebin.fr/35980 > > and the start/stop zramswap.service script: > http://pastebin.fr/35981 > > I don't have any bad feeling about the new script, but I really appreciate > the job done > by the "old" one, which has worked perfectly so far. I use the kernel > 3.14.4-1-ARCH > x86_64, a nvidia current driver, and zram is loaded and working everyday > during several > hours. > > And this is what it looks like now, after the new program has replaced > this script which > works well, with one script which provides other features: > https://github.com/TimofeyTitovets/systemd-swap/blob/master/systemd-swap.sh > > So you can see the differences which are important. > > I posted an initial comment on the AUR zramswap page on 2014-05-21 22:39 > to explain that > I was in disagreement with the change done, as the zramswap did only one > thing --and > does it well-- take care of the zram module. > > My argument being rejected, I am asking here to the Trusted Users to see > what you can > do about it? > > I have been a long time user of the compcache package (from the original > project: > https://code.google.com/p/compcache/ ) and later when the main component > became the zram > kernel module I started using the script meant to load and set it up, > having for name > zramswap, which I am still using now as I said, at it's version 1.1.1. > > My machine has 4 Gb ram, but sometimes with Virtualbox running along with > other greedy > applications it is very good to have. > > I would appreciate it a lot if things where put back as they were with the > script which > takes care of zram only and nothing else, and be orphaned as it should > have been, in > order to allow anyone interested to adopt it and take care of it. > > I'll stay tuned. > > Regards, > Mélodie > >
