From zram documentation: The zram module creates RAM based block devices named /dev/zram ( = 0, 1, …). Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings. Some of the usecases include /tmp storage, use as swap disks, various caches under /var and maybe many more :)
Example of compressed swap in memory 🔗
Write this commands in /etc/rc.local to create a 2G compressed swap partition in memory.
# Load the module and create one zram device, /dev/zram0
modprobe zram num_devices=1
# Maximum of compressed streams (keep same as CPUs)
echo 4 > /sys/devices/virtual/block/zram0/max_comp_streams
# Size of zram0 device in k/m/g
echo 2g > /sys/devices/virtual/block/zram0/disksize
# Comression compression algorithm to use
echo lzo > /sys/devices/virtual/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
# Create the swap file system
mkswap /dev/zram0
# Enable the swap partition with high priority
swapon /dev/zram0 -p 10