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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt b/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt index 5f75d2987564..765d790ae831 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt @@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram. This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3} (num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1) -2) Set Disksize (Optional): - Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize' - (in bytes). If disksize is not given, default value of 25% - of RAM is used. - - # Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize - echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize - - NOTE: disksize cannot be changed if the disk contains any - data. So, for such a disk, you need to issue 'reset' (see below) - before you can change its disksize. +2) Set Disksize + Set disk size by writing the value to sysfs node 'disksize'. + The value can be either in bytes or you can use mem suffixes. + Examples: + # Initialize /dev/zram0 with 50MB disksize + echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + + # Using mem suffixes + echo 256K > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize + echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize 3) Activate: mkswap /dev/zram0 @@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram. echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset echo 1 > /sys/block/zram1/reset - (This frees all the memory allocated for the given device). - + This frees all the memory allocated for the given device and + resets the disksize to zero. You must set the disksize again + before reusing the device. Please report any problems at: - Mailing list: linux-mm-cc at laptop dot org |