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 needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM (“CRAM”) for Linux.

This hardware-offloaded compression still al … ⌘ Read more