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Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/

<div><img alt="Swissbit 2GB PC2-5300U-555" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Swissbit_2GB_PC2-5300U-555-banner.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers.</p>
<p><a href="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/RAM-price-trend.png" target="_blank"><img alt="RAM prices gone up four times" class="alignright size-full" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/RAM-price-trend.png" width="300" /></a></p>
<p>If you’ve been priced out of new RAM you are going to want to get as much value out of the RAM you already have as possible, and that’s where today’s hack comes in: if you’re on a Debian system read about <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam" target="_blank">ZRam</a> for how to install and configure <code>zram-tools</code> to enable and manage the Linux kernel facilities that enable compressed RAM by integrating with the swap-enabled virtual memory system. <a href="https://hackaday.com/2020/05/20/zram-boosts-raspberry-pi-performance/">We’ve seen it done with the Raspberry Pi</a>, and the concept is the same.</p>
<p>Ubuntu users should check out <a href="https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man8/zram-generator.8.html" target="_blank">systemd-zram-generator</a> in

Surviving the RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/surviving-the-ram-price-squeeze-with-linux-in-kernel-memory-compression/
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