What is the zram-generator package?

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  • The zram-generator package provides a simple and fast mechanism to configure swap on /dev/zram- devices.
  • It is shipped and supported in RHEL 9 or newer. Swap on zram is compressed swap in RAM, while normal swap offloads evicted pages to block storage.
  • Both these solutions have their individual advantages a...

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