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submitted 20 hours ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have been setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness and EasyOOM daemon on 16gb ram boxes, or lower. Someone asked me about 32gb of ram, or more, and I'm unsure. Wondering if others have experimented with this!

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[-] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Genuinely curious: what are you doing to be needing this?

I cannot think of any modern usecase for swap a part from hybernation

[-] amorangi@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 hours ago

Local AI can chew it up. Wasn't able to run certain jobs on 64Gb until I switched to zswap.

[-] kiol@discuss.online 5 points 16 hours ago

I've been using lower ram machines lately, so made me curious about if people are using things like zram with 32gb+

[-] Outsider9042@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Compiling Librewollf with a sufficient number of jobs is a great way to eat up 32GB of RAM, and the some.

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