[lubuntu-devel] Part of new write up

[Julien Lavergne]

Nio explained it perfectly. In fact, we had several bad feedbacks from
testers which had zram on an installed system, so we enabled it only during
install.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne
Le 15 mars 2016 8:54 PM, "Phill. Whiteside" <phillwuk at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Thanks Nio,
>
> My memory needs prodding every now and again!!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 15 March 2016 at 19:42, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Den 2016-03-15 kl. 18:58, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>>
>>> Hi boss,
>>>
>>> with 16.04 coming up can you (and others) make a comments on the article
>>> that was made back in 13.10 [1] regarding zram  so that we have a clear
>>> set of notes for Xenail[2]. I was under the impression that we remove
>>> zram at the end of the install when maybe we should keep it.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>> 1.
>>>
>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/lubuntu-1310-changes-firefox-zram-added.html
>>> 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Phill,
>>
>> I will not reply for the boss, but I will tell what I think - I'm not
>> sure, but this is what I remember:
>>
>> zram is used in the desktop installer in order to make it possible to
>> install with lower amount of RAM. It makes a big difference (RAM needed is
>> reduced to approximately half).
>>
>> But zram is not really stable, so it is not used in the installed system.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
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