Hi guys! I’m a bit tired that my system sometimes completely becomes unresponsive while running things that could fill up the memory. I have 32GB of RAM, a bit of a swap file in my SSD (I think something like 5GB swap), but this clearly isn’t cutting it. I was having a few browser windows opened, a handbrake encoding that was paused and decided to open Death Stranding 2, which is optimized to take around 5-6GB of RAM. And the system became once more so unresponsive that I had to literally reset it, after 5mins of nothing. I’d like to implement in my Ubuntu-based distro what they have in CachyOS. I’m not exactly sure, but I think it’s a ZRAM-based swap partition? Something like 1 or 2GB commited to compressed virtual memory in RAM? Seems this works much better when things are close to getting dicey…how would I go about doing what they use in CachyOS? Is there any easy to follow guide?

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    Using a udev rule

    The example below describes how to set up swap on zram automatically at boot with a single udev rule and an fstab entry. No additional packages are needed to make this work.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I’d take a single file config. It’s cleaner and easier to see what’s going on.

      You may not need an additional package, but often they’re convenient.