Current Debian distributions does not have memory compression settings enabled by default. This causes a lot of RAM usage and makes difficult to run many apps for web development. A successor to compcache is zram which is fully integrated in the Linux kernel since 2.6.37.1 and uses lzo compression. The idea behind it is to create swap …
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