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[–] Oddbin@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TL:DR it will use some of the ram and dedicate it to games to make them run better and start faster using the existing quick startup function.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How is this getting upvoted, zram is a ram compression technique of a few % and has nothing to do with preloading strategies

Edit: mb, apparently its behaviour now also includes general purpose cache. Back in the day, I remembered that it would only help for low ram devices to make better usage of existing ram.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ZRAM is used as swap space, it's not just the compression that makes it stand out.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram