zRAM and Live CD

[Nio Wiklund]

On 2013-06-16 23:02, Yorvyk wrote:
> On 16/06/13 20:09, Yorvyk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Compaq Deskpro EP K450 from last century.
>>>>
>>>> Intel 440BX chip set
>>>> 450 MHz Pentium III
>>>> 256 MiB PC100 RAM
>>>> 6.4 GB HDD (from Oct 1998)
>>>> MGA G200 AGP graphics
>>>>
>>>
>>
> Using the pre-partitioning method with the above hardware and 13.04.
> 
> Boot into the Live CD and partition the drive with one Ext4 partition
> and a swap partition 1.5 x RAM size, as per the default partitioning,
> using gParted. Reboot, as swap isn't seen even using swapon -a.
> Installing from the live session and the direct install option crashes
> even though swap is being used. So, on this rather slow machine at
> least, it looks like the zRAM in Saucy is rather useful.
> 
> 
I guess the RAM is too slow and some process will lose patience and
'time out'. So zRAM is really improving the performance :-)

But maybe you would have succeeded with 512 MB or 768 MB of RAM. (I
don't ask you to test it, at least not in that slow machine, we already
know the benefit of zRAM).