zswap
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11recommend
1warn against
Dec 23, 2025first mention
Sep 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Nah, zswap is way better than zram”
“Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram.”
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“Zswap is even better than that. Give it a try sometime.”
“Or zswap instead of zram.”
“Better use zswap”
Caveats and dissent
“I had issues getting it to use zstd at boot”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“which decouples zswap from its backing store entirely”
Threads where it came up
- Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths 6 mentions
- Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead 4 mentions
- It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 2 mentions
- Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table 2 mentions
- Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM 1 mention
- Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage 1 mention
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All comments 16
“Nah, zswap is way better than zram”
“Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram.”
“Zswap is even better than that. Give it a try sometime.”
“Or zswap instead of zram.”
“Better use zswap”
“zswap works well in my experience.”
“Zsawp itself is enabled by default in Asahi.”
“Zswap is supposed to degrade more gracefully.”
“I do like that zswap works alongside regular swap”
“It doesn't really need any config on most distros, no.”
“I had issues getting it to use zstd at boot”
“zswap performs better when using a fast NVMe device as swap device and zram remains superior for devices with slow or no swap device.”
“you can mostly disable zswap writeback”
“I use zswap, which is a non-fixed intermediate layer between RAM and swap and worked great”
“Linux supports proper memory compression in the form of zswap”
“Zswap is arguably better.”