[Suggestion] ZRAM + swappiness tweaks -> more performance [released]

I got a battery drain with zram. 100 % charge after 3.5 hours usage gets to 60% with zram!

ZRAM uses the cpu when swapping out to compress stuff. Normally the cpu should not have problems compressing stuff. Did you use the phone extensively ? Did you check if swap was even used ?

It's my second day of usage and I haven't seen any battery drain. Jolla lasted on battery as usual about 12 hours but I must admit that I changed the stock values in zram config files. Instead of stock 25% of ram allocated to zram I use 43%. It's stable and what's most important to me faster than originaly used swap partion. One little thing I'd like to add is to make proper use of zram you have to also disable default swap in terminal or reenabling it with lower priority. Other way jolla won't use zram till the swap's filled up.

Hi there, I'm the guy who compiled and packaged zram (and zramcfg) :)

zramcfg automatically sets the swap priority value of the zram devices at 32767, which is the maximum. Theoretically the kernel should already prefer the zram devices to the normal swap partition.

I can't talk about the battery life because here is the same (which can be better...) with or without zram.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback, I hope that this community testing can be useful in future if Jolla wants to enable zram by default (which IMHO is not a bad idea at all, but the I agree that the version in Linux 3.4 is pretty outdated...)

Eugenio

I think that my battery drain was something like "first time use" problem: Installed zram, rebooted and the charge dropped instantly from 90% to 20%.I did charge the phone, after that discharge was like i described it above (3.5 hours = 40% drain), 24 hours later everything seems normal. Can you tell me please how to disable swap permanently!!!!?