Friday, January 15, 2021

Using zram with the Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via PiMyLifeUp

zram is a Linux kernel module that is designed to create a compressed block within your RAM that can be used as swap memory or as a temporary disk.

Data inserted into this portion of the memory will automatically be compressed. This compression allows you to fit more data into your memory.

Swap memory makes up a part of Linux’s virtual memory system and is used as a spill over to prevent out of memory errors.

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