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guentherttoday at 1:05 PM1 replyview on HN

So much polemic and no numbers? If it is a performance issue, show me the numbers!


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cdowntoday at 1:34 PM

There are quite a few numbers in the article, although of course I'm happy to hear any more you'd like presented.

* A counterintuitive 25% reduction in disk writes at Instagram after enabling zswap

* Eventual ~5:1 compression ratio on Django workloads with zswap + zstd

* 20-30 minute OOM stalls at Cloudflare with the OOM killer never once firing under zram

The LRU inversion argument is just plain from the code presented and a logical consequence of how swap priority and zram's block device architecture interact, I'm not sure numbers would add much there.

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