Hi All, This changeset marks the incorporation of the zram package (compressed swap memory) into OpenWRT trunk. This hasn't yet been back-ported to Attitude Adjustment https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/35025/
A motivation (among others) for including zram support as a package is to let newer versions of OpenWRT, especially with the 3.x kernel, run on older devices with 16MB RAM like the Linksys/Cisco WRT54G. However, I'm curious about use cases for having zram on newer devices with 32MB+ RAM. E.g. ... - More RAM available for hostapd or some captive portal application like chilli? - More RAM available for conntrack or other kernel-level firewall tools? - Permit larger and more complex housekeeping tasks (nagios, munin) to run periodically, w/o chewing up as much RAM when dormant? I'm not sure of the performance impact of using zram, so I'm not sure if that could outweigh the gains in reduced memory footprint. -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net [email protected] 314-246-9434
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