zram...? Raspberry Pi & Snakeoil

[agent_kith]

From what I've read zram is merged into mainline kernel since 3.14....
Using the linked github install on RPi and when I run...

Code:

$ grep zram /proc/swaps

it returns...

Code:

/dev/zram0                              partition    236028    0    5

so appears to be enabled as default swap but unused currently as Pi3 and Snakeoil is using so very few resources..   

Run something intensive like JRiver and see more RAM gets consumed. To be fair this also likes a virtual desktop, hence the extra overheads. This is why I prefer MPD or LMS+Squeezelite.

Edit: To be even fairer I think I should be able to cut down the number of running processes too. From 1.x.x onwards I notice the number of processes running appear to be 2 to 4 times more than 0.1.x series. However, I guess because of the real time+force preemption kernel, it doesn't really matter as the process that requires CPU attention will always get it.

Hopefully I can revise the kernel and streamline it even more in the future.