Re: Path forward for Virtualized Swap?

From: Rik van Riel

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 21:08:15 EST


>
> For our deployment, we only compress about 7-10% of the system memory
> before performance starts to suffer. The feedback loop will scale it
> back. I am very curious do you have actual work load to swap out 100%
> of the RAM.

One common workload is a web browser with idle tabs.

Those often compress pretty well, a ratio of 4:1 is
not unheard of, which makes it easy to fill up
1/3 of memory with 133% of memory's worth of compressed
memory.

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