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-ramzswap: Compressed RAM based swap device
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+zram: Compressed RAM based block devices
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+----------------------------------------
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Project home: http://compcache.googlecode.com/
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* Introduction
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-The ramzswap module creates RAM based block devices which can (only) be used as
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-swap disks. Pages swapped to these devices are compressed and stored in memory
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-itself. See project home for use cases, performance numbers and a lot more.
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+The zram module creates RAM based block devices: /dev/ramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
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+Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself.
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+These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of
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+memory savings.
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-Individual ramzswap devices are configured and initialized using rzscontrol
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-userspace utility as shown in examples below. See rzscontrol man page for more
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-details.
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+See project home for use cases, performance numbers and a lot more.
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+
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+Individual zram devices are configured and initialized using zramconfig
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+userspace utility as shown in examples below. See zramconfig man page for
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+more details.
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* Usage
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-Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using ramzswap.
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+Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
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1) Load Modules:
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- modprobe ramzswap num_devices=4
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- This creates 4 (uninitialized) devices: /dev/ramzswap{0,1,2,3}
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+ modprobe zram num_devices=4
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+ This creates 4 (uninitialized) devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3}
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(num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1)
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2) Initialize:
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- Use rzscontrol utility to configure and initialize individual
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- ramzswap devices. Example:
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- rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --init # uses default value of disksize_kb
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+ Use zramconfig utility to configure and initialize individual
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+ zram devices. For example:
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram0 --init # uses default value of disksize_kb
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram1 --disksize_kb=102400 # 100MB /dev/zram1
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- *See rzscontrol man page for more details and examples*
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+ *See zramconfig man page for more details and examples*
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3) Activate:
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- swapon /dev/ramzswap2 # or any other initialized ramzswap device
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+ mkswap /dev/zram0
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+ swapon /dev/zram0
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+
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+ mkfs.ext4 /dev/zram1
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+ mount /dev/zram1 /tmp
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4) Stats:
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- rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --stats
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram0 --stats
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram1 --stats
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5) Deactivate:
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- swapoff /dev/ramzswap2
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+ swapoff /dev/zram0
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+ umount /dev/zram1
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6) Reset:
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- rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --reset
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- (This frees all the memory allocated for this device).
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram0 --reset
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+ zramconfig /dev/zram1 --reset
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+ (This frees memory allocated for the given device).
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Please report any problems at:
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