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@pop_os_official@fosstodon.orgPop!_OS now has zram enabled! zram actively compresses memory in the background, increasing the amount of free memory your system has available. This results in increased FPS in games, or faster simulations and compiler runs. 
@pop_os_official Is the performance increase just for lower-memory systems? Is it faster to compress memory than page out to swap?
@blades you will see the most difference on systems with lower RAM but it certainly will help everyone to a degree.
@blades @pop_os_official OS X has done it for a few years too. Worked well on lower end machines with low RAM even with nvme drives to swap too. Was good for battery life too IIRC. I’ll definitely try it out.
@xlmnxp @pop_os_official Compared to the random I/O performance of swap on a NVME SSD, the CPU cost is negligible.
@pop_os_official do you all have a link to a whitepaper or other docs on the whats and whys of zram and what it brings to Pop_os?
@pop_os_official hey i know it helps but when you are using some browser tab like 5 or so and maybe 2app that can be run so like 75% of 4gig ram so that can be done with out activating zram so we can save extra process means better battery so if it can be implemented with a 65% threshold like if ram is under that 65% zram will not work but after that it will again.
@quantum @pop_os_official It's up to the kernel to decide when it's an ideal time to start using swap, but that's typically how it is functioning.
@pop_os_official Got a link to more information? I'm not familiar with zram.