Do you have any more advice on this? On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM Torstein Sørnes <t.soer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I get an error that the device is not found even though it seems to exist > with ls. > $ /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/zram-generator --setup-device > /dev/zram0 > (base) 19:25:17 > Error: Device /dev/zram0 not found > $ ls -Ah -l /dev/zram0 > > (base) 19:25:19 > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 0 2024-11-08 19:22 /dev/zram0 > > $ cat /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf > > (base) 19:25:26 > [zram0] > zram-size = 32G > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 7:35 PM Michal Koutný <mkou...@suse.com> wrote: > >> Hello Torstein. >> >> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 03:51:31PM GMT, Torstein Sørnes < >> t.soer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have a Fedora 41 laptop with 32GB of ram. >> > >> > On startup, this shows in the journal: >> > ``` >> > nov. 05 13:58:32 D2S3Q34 zram-generator[1059]: Error: Failed to >> configure >> > disk size into /sys/block/zram0/disksize >> > nov. 05 13:58:32 D2S3Q34 zram-generator[1059]: Caused by: >> > nov. 05 13:58:32 D2S3Q34 zram-generator[1059]: Cannot allocate >> memory >> > (os error 12) >> > nov. 05 13:58:32 D2S3Q34 kernel: zram-generator: vmalloc error: size >> > 131072000000000, exceeds total pages, mode:0xdc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO), >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> This value looks suspicious. >> >> > After starting up, I can execute this series of commands, and >> successfully >> > create a 32GB swap: >> > ``` >> > sudo swapoff /dev/zram0 >> > sudo zramctl --reset /dev/zram0 >> > sudo zramctl --find --size 32G >> >> Notice zramctl operation may differ from zram-generator, >> perhaps try with: >> /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/zram-generator --setup-device >> /dev/zram0 >> >> and what is in your zram-generator.conf? >> >> Thanks, >> Michal >> >
