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Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?

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…

  • Meta engineer Gregory Price introduces Compressed RAM (CRAM) at Linux Plumbers Conference.
  • CRAM offers hardware-offloaded compression for Linux, potentially outperforming ZRAM and Zswap.
  • CRAM maintains cacheline/byte access to compressed memory, with read-only data as fast as raw DRAM.

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