Improving KDE Plasma Performance on Low-Resource Systems

Łukasz Wojniłowicz lukasz.wojnilowicz at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 12:20:49 BST 2026


On 26-08-22 18:59, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
>On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 10:13 +0300, Lost Nebula wrote:
>2. You're using ZRAM with SWAP, that's just wrong. You want either
>"just ZRAM" or "ZSWAP + SWAP". Your combination of "ZRAM + SWAP" isn't
>going to give you the experience you expect. I can refer you to this
>article that goes deeper into this topic:
>https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html

Thanks for sharing the link. I used ZRAM + SWAP too,
but my system rarely runs out of RAM, so I guess it didn't matter that much.
However when it does run out of RAM, then I think ZSWAP should fit my use case better. 

Your tip, should certainly run better for the OP, which I believe experiences 
heavy swapping.

I wasn't aware that there are two swapping strategies and my Fedora defaults to
ZRAM.

-- 
Łukasz


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