No, according to the kernel documentation zswap keeps compressed pages in a RAM-based memory pool and only moves them out to the on-disk swap when the compressed pool reaches its size limit.
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No, according to the kernel documentation zswap keeps compressed pages in a RAM-based memory pool and only moves them out to the on-disk swap when the compressed pool reaches its size limit.
Hmmm... nice. I'm using both zram and zswap on an old laptop of mine (it has an old 40gb pata - very slow) to reduce I/O, so I'll try at some point to see how it goes with zswap only.