Zram in the Wiki

[peter_li]

Is this article still okay or would it be better to write: If you want to use it immedeately, not waiting for the next restart, do something like this:

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$ sudo modprobe zram
$ sudo /etc/init.d/zram start

[CharlesV]

I dont have an answer to your question, but there are a few recent posts here regarding zram and their issues / setup for.

If you search you will find someone might have mentioned this.

[Jerry3904]

Is this article still okay or would it be better to write: If you want to use it immedeately, not waiting for the next restart, do something like this:

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$ sudo modprobe zram
$ sudo /etc/init.d/zram start

Not sure it would be "better" but if it works it would be useful to add it , but first: does it take a loooong time to run that final update command?

[peter_li]

Is this article still okay or would it be better to write: If you want to use it immedeately, not waiting for the next restart, do something like this:

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$ sudo modprobe zram
$ sudo /etc/init.d/zram start

Not sure it would be "better" but if it works it would be useful to add it , but first: does it take a loooong time to run that final update command?

As I remember it was not along time, I think. But I had the impression that it will only do the activation after the next reboot. So I aded this.

[Charlie Brown]

It does that immediately, just till next boot (also the /etc/init.d/.. is not needed, directly zram is enough):

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$ free -mw
              total        used        free      shared     buffers       cache   available
Mem:           2005         348         836         104          94         725        1487
Swap:             0           0           0
charlie@Brown:~
$ sudo modprobe zram ; sudo zram start
zram devices probed successfully
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 501.3 MiB (525615104 bytes)
no label, UUID=4e7c8d66-5993-4d74-87f6-3582e9fd9e00
charlie@Brown:~
$ free -mw
              total        used        free      shared     buffers       cache   available
Mem:           2005         362         818         107          94         728        1470
Swap:           501           0         501

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$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
...
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
zram0  252:0    0 501.3M  0 disk [SWAP]

... Shortly, one can put sudo modprobe zram ; sudo zram start in Autostart as an alternative.