> > On 5/11/26 8:01 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Benny Lyne Amorsen wrote: > >>> > >>> zswap on the other hand discovers that certain pages have not been in > >>> use for a long time, and so it migrates them to disk without > >>> decompressing them. It will also notice that some memory pages are > >>> incompressible, and it will send those straight to disk. > >>> > >>> The result is that with zswap, the recently used pages are in fast > >>> compressed memory, and stuff which has not been used for hours is > >>> on disk. As it should be. > >>> > >>> https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html > >>> > > > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > >> Fascinating article. I suggest people read the section on Fedora before > >> deciding to change. > > > > So what's the current default setup for swapping with Fedora? (i.e. > > Fresh install on a blank drive, you haven't customised anything.) I'm > > still on Fedora 42 on the other PC. > > zram with no swap partition.
My machine is still slow, typically jumping from winodw to wondow. I have NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/zram0 partition 8G 7.8G 100 Something that I do not understand top Tasks: 513 total, 1 running, 507 sleeping, 4 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 4.1 us, 2.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 92.9 id, 0.0 wa, 0.3 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 31955.0 total, 538.2 free, 27718.0 used, 7342.9 buff/cache MiB Swap: 8192.0 total, 161.9 free, 8030.1 used. 4237.0 avail Mem I do not understand the numbers, i.e. free + used + buff != total -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
