zRAM

[Nio Wiklund]

+1

On 2013-06-09 09:08, leszek.lesner at web.de wrote:
> Ok a simple suggestion from me. Why don't we decidebto enable zram (with zram-config) for the alpha version and see how itnworks out for the testers. We can disable this afterwards if the test fails. 
> But I highly doubt that you will see any downside in using zram. 
> And btw. as I don't think it os clear to everyone zram enabled means a virtual swap partition gets mounted into the system. The location of this swap partition is however instead of the traditional one a virtual compressed ram drive. I hope that this is understandable. 
> Please +1 if you also want zram enabled by default in the alpha images.
> 
> --
> Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetNio Wiklund schrieb am 09.06.13 04:11:
> On 2013-06-08 20:05, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 06/08/2013 10:57 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Karl Anliot <kanliot at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:kanliot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I honestly think zram could help during the one-time graphical
>>>     installation of Lubuntu on 512MB pcs.  In fact, edubuntu included
>>>     zram in that distribution for that exact reason.  We could
>>>     eliminate crashing and the need to delete the slideshow to install.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For the last two years testing Lubuntu on old hardware (256MB-512MB of
>>> RAM), that maybe 1000 installations or more, I have never ever faced
>>> the so called slideshow crashing issue :)
>>>
>>> Please, let's keep the topic as it is :)
>>>  
>>> -- 
>>> *Best Regards,*
>>> *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>*
>>> *Start Ubuntu
>>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu>*
>>>
>>> /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with
>>> 489MB RAM/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> On multiple installations, I have encountered the problem on 512 Meg RAM
>> machines where it crashes at a certain point during the slide-show. 
>>
>> In each case, using the package manager to remove the ubiquity slide
>> show has allowed the graphical installation to go beyond that point, and
>> succeed. 
>>
>> -- 
>> Sincerely,
>> Aere
>>
>>
>>
> I have found that a swap partition can help installing when there is low
> RAM. If there is already swap on the internal drive, it will be grabbed
> by the live system (and it's installer will benefit from it). I have
> even made a version of the Lubuntu-fake-PAE with swap on the USB drive
> for the same reason, 'grub-n-iso-n-swap'.
> 
> I guess zRAM can have the same effect, to allow more data to be managed
> by the memory system with a given amount of RAM hardware.
>