From d134f2be009c4134d031f68c5bc2866f3821c4df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Lilley Date: Apr 24 2021 13:46:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add section to Distribution.adoc --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc index efbfd5d..b2b8166 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc @@ -3,3 +3,14 @@ include::{partialsdir}/entities.adoc[] [[select-distribution]] = Distribution-wide Changes + +[[scale-zram-to-full-memory-size]] +== Scale ZRAM to Full Memory Size + +In Fedora, a swap partition is not created by default at installation time. Instead, a zram device is created, and swap enabled on it during start-up. zram is a type of RAM drive that uses compression. + +For Fedora 34, the size of this zram device is increased. It is set at the same size as RAM or 8 GB, whichever is smaller. This change allows computers with smaller amounts of RAM to successfully complete installation using the Anaconda installer. + +Memory allocation for zram happens dynamically, so the block device's full size is not allocated as it is created. This dynamic resourse allocation, combined with compression in the zram device that is generally greater than 2:1, ensures that the swap file does not entirely consume available memory. + +See `man zram-generator` for more infomormation about how zram is invoked. \ No newline at end of file From 0f378ccc4f10863d14100b45adaf5d1a36b2105d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Lilley Date: Apr 24 2021 13:46:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] typo. --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc index b2b8166..392ea35 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Distribution.adoc @@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ For Fedora 34, the size of this zram device is increased. It is set at the same Memory allocation for zram happens dynamically, so the block device's full size is not allocated as it is created. This dynamic resourse allocation, combined with compression in the zram device that is generally greater than 2:1, ensures that the swap file does not entirely consume available memory. -See `man zram-generator` for more infomormation about how zram is invoked. \ No newline at end of file +See `man zram-generator` for more information about how zram is invoked. \ No newline at end of file