My experience is that zram saves quite a bit. I have another old laptop with 4GB...

		jowea on Oct 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux ate my RAM (2009) 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!