* Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?
@ 2011-12-30 3:54 99% ` Michael Mol
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From: Michael Mol @ 2011-12-30 3:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira
<spideybr@gmail.com> wrote:
> ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not
> interested currently.
> My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk
> on it to increase emerge performance. Other than that, I'm pretty
> happy with my system performance, disabling swap and compositing
> effects (remember, open source radeon drivers, I might try fglrx again
> but I really liked KMS) did the trick.
8GB isn't enough for some packages. Though putting it on top of zram
might work. I don't know how you'd calculate the free space, though,
and portage would check in advance.
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:wq
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