Re: ext2(3) question(s)
On 10/2/2022 6:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/2/22 13:52, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I wanted to ask all who might be interested too, and know the
> answers to this, first, in short,
>
> /dev/zram0 my system says is a swap file. It's really no big deal,
> but I would rather not have one. I see the old 'mkswap' command is
> gone, I look at the filesystem and see no visible swap. Is there a
> way to turn this off? I really don't think my memory needs to swap
> out pages to the filesystem; but then, maybe it could use it. Turning
> it off probably wouldn't hurt.
zram swap is the default now. It compresses memory instead of
swapping to disk. If you aren't using it, it doesn't affect anything,
but if you do end up needing it, it's there.
OK I see. Thank much.