RobertCNelson
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10 years ago Yeah, i was reading that too.. What config are we missing? btw, don't we need a userspace side to make this work too, do you know what packages are needed?
Closed xypron closed 10 years ago
RobertCNelson
commented
10 years ago Yeah, i was reading that too.. What config are we missing? btw, don't we need a userspace side to make this work too, do you know what packages are needed?
xypron
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10 years ago Debian package mount contains: /sbin/swapon,and /sbin/swapoff
Debian package util-linux contains: /sbin/mkswap
RobertCNelson
commented
10 years ago Oh i was thinking there was a zram-config utility or something.. Just enabled the two missing configs: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/armv7-multiplatform/commit/aa1874765b8f0c3554072d6eb4f602fb6e2510a2
CONFIG_ZSMALLOC=y CONFIG_ZRAM=m
RobertCNelson
commented
10 years ago BTW: i've started config checker, for better enablement of features and more consistency.. https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/master/tools/config-checker.sh
zram allows to use part of the RAM as compressed swap.
With this commit it has been moved from staging to drivers main: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=ab41c488c652be9ed08e5b1660727147df27e8cd
Kernel module zram is available in Ubuntu by default.
Hence I suggest to add the module to the default configuration of armv7-multiplatform.
Usage is described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/302447/how-to-install-zram-on-ubuntu-13-04 https://github.com/mystilleef/FedoraZram http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00210.html