Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399

And suddenly me “unjustifiably” buying 128gb of DDR5 was a good investment of money.

Only if you actually use that much. You almost certainly don’t.

introducing: zram

toss 32 or 64gb at that and call it a day

YMMV.

Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it “steals” space that could be used for normal memory.

But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends.

If you’re able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better.

Zram is intended for devices with no swap