On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:41:40 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

UPDATE:

I forgot to remove ths paragraph: just ignore it!

> There wasn't a systemd swap service before F33, so we need to know how
> to disable/uninstall zswap and reinstall the old system using a swap
> file or partition - especially those of us with older systems with less
> memory - my Dual Athlon based house server has 4GB and my old Lenovo R61
> has 3GB. The former certainly uses swap space during one of my
> infrequently run database tasks, so it seems likely that it would fail
> with zswap.
>
The rest of that post is OK:


> I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap
>
> Apparently zswap is intended to prevent swapping from wearing out flash
> drives and has been around since 2013. The swap file/partition is still
> required to deal with the situation when memory gets oversubscribed: as
> the zswap cache space grows it will overflow into the swap file or
> partition on disk.


--
--
Martin    | martin at
Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05