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My experience is that zram saves quite a bit. I have another old laptop with 4GB where it's essential. Maybe it differs by program type?

  NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA  COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
  /dev/zram0 lzo-rle      15,6G  1,9G 248,6M  418M      16 [SWAP]


Yup, it will depend on your workload a lot. Worth testing of course!




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