Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:35:50 +0800 | From | Bob Liu <> | Subject | Re: zram/zsmalloc issues in very low memory conditions |
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Hi Olav,
On 11/01/2013 07:34 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > On 10/24/2013 6:12 PM, Luigi Semenzato wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>> Hi Bob, Luigi, >>> >>> On 10/23/2013 5:55 PM, Bob Liu wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/24/2013 05:51 AM, Olav Haugan wrote: >>> >>>> By the way, could you take a try with zswap? Which can write pages to >>>> real swap device if compressed pool is full. >>> >>> zswap might not be feasible in all cases if you only have flash as >>> backing storage. >> >> Zswap can be configured to run without a backing storage. >> > > I was under the impression that zswap requires a backing storage. Can > you elaborate on how to configure zswap to not need a backing storage? >
AFAIK, currently zswap can't be used without a backing storage. Perhaps you can take a try by creating a swap device backed by a file on storage.
-- Regards, -Bob
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