Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 12:06, Simon Perry wrote: > On 13/03/14, Mauro Santos wrote: > > | I have had it enabled for a while and I haven't yet seen any nasty crash > | due to it. Hibernation also works fine and seems to go faster than > | without zswap. > > How much RAM do you have? > > zram is probably s

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, I've had excessive swapping (high cpu usage with kswapd) and the termination of running programs (like Skype) due to zram swapping. I used zramswap from the AUR to start the service, but it only calls on the kernel to produce the block devices. A compressed zram device (like maybe F2F

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Perry
On 13/03/14, Mauro Santos wrote: | I have had it enabled for a while and I haven't yet seen any nasty crash | due to it. Hibernation also works fine and seems to go faster than | without zswap. How much RAM do you have? zram is probably solving a problem you don't have. Enable it on a VPS that

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 11:40, GSC wrote: > On 2014年03月13日 19:35, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> >> Are you talking about zramswap or zswap? The former did have some issues. >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169585 > I 'm talking about zramswap. I currently use linux-lts so zswap not yet > available.

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread GSC
On 2014年03月13日 19:35, Karol Blazewicz wrote: Are you talking about zramswap or zswap? The former did have some issues. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169585 I 'm talking about zramswap. I currently use linux-lts so zswap not yet available. Is zswap stable?

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:28 PM, GSC wrote: > On 2014年03月13日 19:26, Mark Lee wrote: >> >> Salutations, >> >> I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use >> the >> 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram >> while using tmpfs. >> >> Regard

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Perry
On 13/03/14, GSC wrote: | I find zram not very stable. Several system freeze happened to me and I | stopped using it, Same, turned it on for two low-ram boxes I had, caused more problems than it solved. -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread GSC
On 2014年03月13日 19:26, Mark Lee wrote: Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards, Mark I find zram not very stable. Several system freeze happened to

[arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards, Mark