Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.
Thanks for the added insights! I haven’t used it myself, so appreciated.
Linux has a second, similar “compressed memory” feature called zswap. This guy has used both, and thinks that if someone is using a system with NVMe, that zswap is preferable.
https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/
Based on his take, zram is probably a better choice for that rotational-disk Celeron, but if you’re running Cities: Skylines on newer hardware, I’m wondering if zswap might be more advantageous.
Huh I’d never looked into that! Thank you!
I mostly used zram because there’s an easy-peasy script in the Debian repos making it dead simple to setup and never looked deeper into it