From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: ZRAM setup and configuration
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:05:40 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdaadb_SKyZwoxSJNT9MhUG_tFtWsjgz6i5Ouxz3w2w=R6Afg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:22 PM, russel phillipe <russel.phillipe@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup ZRAM on ubuntu 4.4 kernel. I can load and create zram
> based swap devices fine as you can see below.
>
> # apt-get install zram-config
>
> cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/sda3 partition 16638972 0 -1
> /dev/zram0 partition 2036816 0 5
> /dev/zram1 partition 2036816 0 5
> /dev/zram2 partition 2036816 0 5
>
> How can I make it work. I tried running memtester and load it with stress
> stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemFree/{printf "%d\n", $2 * 0.9;}' <
> /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1
>
> It does not look like it is being used.
>
> I notice that 'used' count in /proc/swaps does not bump at all. I even
> tried 'vmstat 1 100 ' while running stress and memtester and did not see
> any change in SO and SI.
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks
> Russel
>
>
I think you need to bring more load. Using mem free, that means you don't
even push the buffer/page cache to be flushed out.
Without using too complicated math, I suggest to stress as much as twice
amount of available RAM. Hopefully it will bring difference.
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
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