zram
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6recommend
6warn against
Dec 20, 2025first mention
Sep 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“The latency of zram (compressed in memory) is still lower than the fastest SSDs which reduces those stalls.”
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“you'd want to do that on zram (compressed swap in RAM). It also make wonders.”
“Google strongly recommends using zram on all devices”
“Have you tried zram swap?”
Caveats and dissent
“zswap is way better than zram”
“zram and swap together can lead to priority inversion”
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“It's also not the optimal choice in most situations”
“Zram is buggy and still advised against regular use”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead 4 mentions
- Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths 3 mentions
- Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide 2 mentions
- Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table 2 mentions
- Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM 1 mention
- The death and rebirth of my home server 1 mention
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All comments 17
“zswap is way better than zram”
“The latency of zram (compressed in memory) is still lower than the fastest SSDs which reduces those stalls.”
“Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram.”
“Or zswap instead of zram.”
“zram and swap together can lead to priority inversion”
“It's also not the optimal choice in most situations”
“Add ZRAM”
“you'd want to do that on zram (compressed swap in RAM). It also make wonders.”
“Zram is buggy and still advised against regular use”
“Google strongly recommends using zram on all devices”
“zswap performs better when using a fast NVMe device as swap device and zram remains superior for devices with slow or no swap device.”
“even if sub-optimal”
“I used to put swap on zram when my laptop had one of those early ssds”
“Have you tried zram swap?”
“zram has been "obsolete" for years”
“The only times I use zram are when all I have to work with for storage is MMC”
“I use zram exclusively as swap”