DRAM computer memory technology.
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Does installing zRam have any advantages on a system without SWAP?
Running Ubutu 12.10 here, on an 128Gb SSD and a 4Gb ram system. Ever since I installed the OS I realised I dont need the swap partition, as I never use the hibernate function and rarely run out of ...
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ZRAM enabled but Swap in RAM not used
So I've just decided to enable zram on my 6 Gb ram Ubuntu 12.04, using zram-config.
It takes about 2.9 Gb of ram (after manually starting up the service, fixing this later...), but, even with ...
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zram need to be reinstalled after every start
I've installed zram-enabler from ppa. It had started nicely immediately after installation. But after power down, everything is gone, swapon -s don't mentions any zram disk. If i use zram-config ...
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Strange device nodes
I have been having bizarre issues. It started when I decided to install Scientific Linux Fermi 6.3 and dual boot it. First I was going to burn it to usb, but that was taking too long and I'm ...
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How do I use zRam?
I installed zRam as described on webupd8.org. I installed it from the terminal. Is that all I have to do or do I have to do some configuration or something? Does the zram-enabler do everything by ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Faster boot, Hibernate & other questions
I've recently started exploring Ubuntu (my 1st distro).
I fresh installed precise without a swap (4GB ram).
The only issues are, slow boot (regardless of the swap) and instability after a few days ...
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Forcibly removing zramswap-enabler from my computer
zramswap-enabler has put my package manage in an "inconsistent state."
I tried forcibly removing it with this commend:
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq
But it seems to freeze and doesn't ...
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Cannot update system - stuck on zramswap-enabler
I'm having the same problem as mentioned here on two computers (one runs 12.04, while the other runs 11.10), but the solution provided does not work for me.
When I do update and upgrade through the ...
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Does using both tmpfs and zram make any sense?
I wondered if tmpfs and zram do negatively interfere with each other in any way?
After what I've read about it I'm unsure whether there is a positive cumulative effect accomplishable with that ...
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Where did this zram swap come from?
I have a zram swap (and a normal one) and I got no idea where it came from:
$ sudo blkid | grep zram
/dev/zram0: UUID="..." TYPE="swap"
$ lsmod | grep zram
zram 18642 1
$ cat $ ...
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is it safe to remove zram swap enabler?
I have recently installed zram swap enabler, which initially seemed great as it made almost everything seem snappier than before, however over time the spike in CPU for compressing/decompressing ram ...
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Cannot install zRam
I tried to install zRam using following commands in terminal -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shnatsel/zram
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zramswap-enabler
But it throws the following error ...
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Would zRam increase my computer's performance?
This article says you can have increased performance in Linux with zRam (virtual swap compressed in RAM).
I have 4 GB of RAM , 2.93 GHz (Dual Core) & I use virtualization a lot (VMWare). Would it ...
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How do I install zRam?
How can I install zRam on my Ubuntu 11.10 acer inspire netbook? Seems like it would be advantageous to use zRam. And would it work?
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How to permanently enable compressed ram swap? What version to use?
EDIT: In precise there's now zram-config. It's an upstart job compressing up to half of your ram spread over $(number of CPU cores) swap devices. It didn't allways start at boot but issuing sudo ...
