Instead of creating a dedicated swap partition or using a swapfile for Linux, I use Zram swap to create a compressed block device in memory.
Any RAM assigned to it is only used for swapping as-needed (until then, the RAM is still available for use by applications). Performing read/write operations in memory is both a speed boost and reduces wear on SSD drives (at the cost of more CPU-intensive activity).
https://www.dwarmstrong.org/zram-linuxmint/
#Linux
Daniel Wayne Armstrong /
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2024-10-02 12:26:22
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