Subj : Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths
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From : LWN.net
Date : Tue Mar 24 2026 13:45:07

Down: Debunking zswap and zram myths

Date:
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:34:12 +0000

Description:
Chris Down has posted a
detailed look at how the kernel's zswap and zram subsystems work  and
how they differ. Most people think of zswap and zram simply as two different
	flavours of the same thing: compressed swap. At a surface level,
	that's correct  both compress pages that would otherwise end up on
	disk  but they make fundamentally different bets about how the
	kernel should handle memory pressure, and picking the wrong one for
	your situation can actively make things worse than having no swap
	at all

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064478/


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