Hi,
I'm following-up now that there's a preview of the change proposal ready: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM
Highlights:
- This is a system-wide change, for all editions and spins. And if Anaconda folks are still agreeable, it would be included on all install media where Anaconda is found: DVD/Live/netinstall.
- Fedora Workstation edition will no longer create swap-on-disk by default. Instead swap-on-zram will be used. I expect to get buy-in from other editions/spins to do the same. This applies only to the default/automatic partitioning path, as previously discussed.
- Tentative (proposed) defaults similar to what's used by IoT: ZRAM device is 50% RAM, with a 4GiB cap.
The max size, which is configurable, is to help scale ZRAM device size for more uses cases and hopefully settle on a single default Fedora wide. This is a bit different than Anaconda's implementation, which doesn't activate above 2GiB, and uses a 1:1 ZRAM to RAM ratio. Based on my testing, even VM's with 3GiB RAM still prefer to use quite a decent amount of swap ~200MiB. If it's available. I think this adjustment is neutral to slightly better for Anaconda. And in any case the installer and installed environments will have the same configuration and implementation as a result of the change.
- Disable or somehow deprecate the Anaconda specific implementation, to avoid conflict and user confusion among the implementations.
- Test day will be planned
Critical feedback welcome.