On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:39:11 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

> A. Dumas wrote:
>
>> RaspiOS installations don't come with swap partitions. (Do any modern
>> Linux installations?)
>
> Fedora now swaps onto zram, which feels somewhat recursive ... you use
> memory until RAM is full, then start swapping onto a zram device which
> is just a RAM disc with compression, so should use less RAM than the
> extra virtual address space it gives you ... feels like a novel method
> of spiralling into the ground waiting to happen?

Presumably thats for a new install?

I just checked this machine (8GB Lenovo T440) and both top and gparted
agree that its still using the 16GB swap partition I set up when I kicked
Windoze into the dustbin and installed Fedora 3 years ago.


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