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Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM
Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?
TL;DRMeta is building a new Linux memory compression tool to reduce RAM costs and usage.
Why it matters: Cheaper memory efficiency could lower server costs industry-wide and improve performance on resource-constrained systems.
Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague: With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux.…
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