Increased Performance In Linux With zRam (Virtual Swap Compressed in RAM)

Posted by hotice on Oct 3, 2011 9:41 AM EDT
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While trying to optimize the elementary OS performance, Sergey Davidoff stumbled upon a project called compcache that creates a RAM based block device which acts as a swap disk, but is compressed and stored in memory instead of swap disk (which is slow), allowing very fast I/O and increasing the amount of memory available before the system starts swapping to disk.

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