inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 days agoMemory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1645arrow-down111 cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 days agoYMMV. Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it “steals” space that could be used for normal memory. But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends.
minus-square0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoah fair enough, worst case scenario if they dont know what to do with that much ram (I would build a homelab) they could also have a ramdisk
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-218 days agoIf you’re able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better. Zram is intended for devices with no swap
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days ago…This appears to be amazing advice. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
YMMV.
Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it “steals” space that could be used for normal memory.
But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends.
ah fair enough, worst case scenario if they dont know what to do with that much ram (I would build a homelab) they could also have a ramdisk
If you’re able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better.
Zram is intended for devices with no swap
…This appears to be amazing advice.
https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/
That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!