I'm currently running Linux Mint XFCE on a Dell Latitude E6420. The desktop is fairly lightweight, but some games that meet my laptop's requirements still occasionally crash when…
I'm setting up a Gentoo system with 12 hardware threads and 64 GB of memory. With that much RAM and a relatively modest thread count, is swap still…
Our application normally fits comfortably in a 32 GB virtual machine, but certain user-triggered studies can temporarily increase memory usage by roughly five times for about 10 seconds.…
I'm using Pop!_OS on a desktop with an Intel i5-10400 and only 4 GB of physical RAM. I already created an 8 GB swapfile, enabled ZRAM, lowered swappiness,…
I'm having an issue where my SSD seems to have started failing after a system freeze caused by my RAM filling up. I'm using Arch Linux with KDE…
I'm wondering whether I really need to use Swap or ZRam when I have 128GB of RAM that I rarely fill up. I've seen a lot of different…
I have a ThinkPad X270 with an Intel i5 6200U processor and just 4GB of RAM, and I'm running Linux Mint XFCE. Since I can't afford to upgrade…
I just learned that Arch Linux comes with zswap enabled by default. I've been using zram without a swap partition but want to try hibernating my laptop, which…
Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to all this, but I've been using zram on my old Debian potato laptop, and it seems to be doing wonders for performance.…