To end the discussion in the “show your desktop” about swap partition yes/no. I want to hear your thoughts about swap and why you use it or not. Personally i have a system up and running with btrfs and 32GB of ram WITHOUT swap enabled. System runs very smooth compared to my Pop! OS install on the s…

[image] cactux: The difference compared to zram is that zswap works in conjunction with a swap device while zram with created swap on top of it is a swap device in RAM that does not require a backing swap device. open question: if my Arch Zswap is enabled by default (it’s true I checked it),…

[image] drunkenvicar: open question: if my Arch Zswap is enabled by default (it’s true I checked it), and I went ahead and created a traditional swap partition when I installed…and the Arch manual ^^ there says basically “they will live in holy harmony”… …then I’m set, right? Leave well enough…

[image] cactux: If you don’t want a swap partition (or file) then I would say zram is the way to go. Just put a simple configuration file in /etc/systemd, disable zswap in the kernel and you are set. that’s an idea. Life without a traditional swap will move me out of my comfort zone, but I l…

Try it. And have a terminal open with watch free -m running to monitor what your memory and swap usage look like every 2 second.

I’ve been mulling this over about an hour. Think I will try it tomorrow. [Now if I can repurposed that partition and add it to Arch ext4…but that’s a gparted project for another day..]

Now that I’m getting into localized LLM’s, I’m seeing my zram used more.

Watching mem and swap (zram + file) usage in real time. [image] mem=8G, swapfile=8G, zram=mem/2, compression=lzo-rle

Swapfile wont do anything with zram from your screenshot. On my 13 years old notebook i only use zram with the configs from the wiki 1.2 and 2.3

[image] MichelN: Swapfile wont do anything with zram from your screenshot. It is not doing anything now but I have it for hibernation. [image] cactux: Also, you could use zram, in conjunction with a swapfile (as I do) or a swap partition if you want to configure hibernation on your syste…

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