zRam for building

[gavinmc42]

Came across this.
http://geektillithertz.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/03/16/raspberry-pi-zram/

We all know Pi3's only have 1GB, compiling big stuff takes a long time as stuff is swapped to SDcard.
Bela talks of overnight type build times

Since I am very new to using piCore for compiling I want to know if this is already part of  piCore?
I have seen the zram0 stuff on boot but never really paid attention to it.

Is anyone else doing long build time stuff with piCore?

[Paul_123]

Zram is enabled by default.  But the size of the ram disk is predetermined during the boot cycle.  The size is a percentage of the total memory.   I forget the actual percentage, but if you look at /etc/init.d/tc-config, you will see it.

If you want to play with increasing the size.....add "nozswap" to the command line, then you can setup by yourself in bootlocal.sh