cloud / zram

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.03.2014 21:00, schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> in case of cloud / virtualization i wonder what is the
>> state of "zram" in the Fedora Kernel, zswap is available
>> and can be enabled with "zswap.enabled=1" as boot paran
>>
>> but zswap is more for a overcommited host to avoid disk paging
>>
>> zram IMHO would be interesting for the guest systems and
>> both combined may lead to run *a lot* of more virtual
>> machines on the same host
>> ____________________________________________________________
>>
>> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /boot/config-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64 | grep -i zswap
>> CONFIG_ZSWAP=y
>>
>> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /boot/config-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64 | grep -i zram
>> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ locate zram
>> /usr/src/kernels/3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64/drivers/staging/zram
>> /usr/src/kernels/3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64/drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig
>> /usr/src/kernels/3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64/drivers/staging/zram/Makefile
> 
> I enabled zram in rawhide at the end of January.  It was done for bug
> 1058072 because zram finally moved out of staging with the upcoming
> 3.14 kernel release.
> 
> Fedora release branches will get this enabled when they rebase to 3.14

cool - thank you for feedback