zram - swap-device in ram

[netnomad]

hi friends,

in earlier installations of tinycore i had a swap-device in the memory.
later this zram-feature disappeared.

is there a reason for that?

thank you for your replies.

[patrikg]

Take a look at your bootcodes(kernel cmdline args).

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:boot_codes_explained
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#bootcodes

The contents of the boot command line are visible in /proc/cmdline.

[netnomad]

hi patrikg,

there a bootcodes for using a swapfile, no swap at all and a bootcode for avoiding zram.

tinycore swapfile{=hda1}       Scan or Specify swapfile
tinycore noswap                      Do not use swap partition
tinycore nozswap                    Skip compressed swap in ram

so zram was the default swap in the former configurations.

[Jason W]

zram swap was disabled early in dCore as I could not get it working.  I will revisit it and see if I can find what the issue was, as it was and still is enabled in the dCore kernel config.

[netnomad]

... that sounds really good :-)

[kevinfish]

is this working yet?

If so how do I get it on my machine?

[Jason W]

Not now, but when time allows I will revisit it.