<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It can be disabled just like any other upstart service. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here is a short documentation link: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#disabling-a-job-from-automatically-starting</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So renaming /etc/init/zram-config.conf to /etc/init/zram-config.donotstart should work here.</div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>Von: </b>Nio Wiklund</div><div><b>Gesendet: </b>Sonntag, 29. September 2013 10:11</div><div><b>An: </b>Leszek Lesner; John Hupp; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</div><div><b>Betreff: </b>Re: AW: zRAM broken on Raring?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">Hi Leszek,<br><br>John has zRAM in Raring. It was pulled in by a package he installed, and<br>I try to help him switch it off.<br><br>Probably it is better to do it in /etc/init.d, but I am not familiar<br>with that method, so I didn't suggest that method. Please describe it,<br>I'm reading and learning :-)<br><br>Best regards<br>Nio<br><br>On 2013-09-29 10:03, Leszek Lesner wrote:<br>> Honestlky I don't get the cronjob. Why is it necessary? On reboot the<br>> init system runs the stop command on zram-config in /etc/init.d which<br>> dies exactly the same as the cronjob here.<br>> <br>> *Von: *Nio Wiklund<br>> *Gesendet: *Sonntag, 29. September 2013 08:29<br>> *An: *John Hupp; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> *Betreff: *Re: zRAM broken on Raring?<br>> <br>> <br>> On 2013-09-29 02:23, John Hupp wrote:<br>>> On 9/28/2013 12:23 PM, sudodus wrote:<br>>>> Hi John,<br>>>><br>>>> Yes, let us hope the bug will be fixed soon, and it will be<br>>>> back-ported :-)<br>>>><br>>>> Can you run your application without zRAM? You can switch it off in a<br>>>> simple way (and have it ready for reactivation) like this with crontab.<br>>>> Edit the crontab with<br>>>><br>>>> sudo crontab -e<br>>>><br>>>> $ sudo crontab -l |tail -n3<br>>>> # m h dom mon dow command<br>>>> @reboot /sbin/swapoff /dev/zram*<br>>>> @reboot /sbin/rmmod zram<br>>>><br>>>> Best regards<br>>>> Nio<br>>><br>>> I set up a root crontab as you suggested, Nio, and syslog confirms that<br>>> the two crontab commands are run after the zram setup commands.<br>>><br>>> But sudo parted -l still reports:<br>>> Error: /dev/zram1: unrecognised disk label<br>>><br>>> Does anyone know if the zram1 device would be using memory (the setup<br>>> command designated 512MB for zram on this 1GB setup) or otherwise doing<br>>> any harm?<br>> <br>> Hi John,<br>> <br>> The zRAM is not removed, only de-activated. Only if zRAM is used already<br>> '@reboot', when cron runs the command, and there is no place to put the<br>> content, then swapoff would fail (I think).<br>> <br>> 1. Did you check with<br>> <br>> swapon -s<br>> <br>> This command should return no zram block device.<br>> <br>> 2. Check the memory with<br>> <br>> free -m<br>> <br>> and install and run<br>> <br>> htop<br>> <br>> to check if something related to zram is running or using memory.<br>> <br>> Best regards<br>> Nio<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Lubuntu-users mailing list<br>> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:<br>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<br><br></div></body></html>