reukiodo
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I found a relatively easy way around this to reduce writes and increase performance overall using https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config package, which combines the functionality from zram-tools' zramswap service as well as log2ram's service, making configuration much simpler overall.
Unfortunately there is no pre-packaged deb, and the source package uses lzip which isn't by default included in proxmox, but the main downside is that the install process requires compiling, which adds many more packages to an otherwise lean system, just to build the overlayfs tools.
The install itself is relatively straightforward, with all the customization within /etc/ztab which is by default setup for a raspberry pi:
Afterwards, with this config, writes are substantially minimized:
Unfortunately there is no pre-packaged deb, and the source package uses lzip which isn't by default included in proxmox, but the main downside is that the install process requires compiling, which adds many more packages to an otherwise lean system, just to build the overlayfs tools.
Code:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential cpp cpp-12 dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-12 gcc gcc-12 libabsl20220623 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libaom3 libasan8 libatomic1 libavif15 libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev libcc1-0 libcrypt-dev libdav1d6 libde265-0 libdeflate0 libfakeroot libgav1-1
libgcc-12-dev libgd3 libgomp1 libheif1 libisl23 libitm1 libjbig0 liblerc4 liblsan0 libmpc3 libmpfr6 libnsl-dev libquadmath0 librav1e0 libstdc++-12-dev libsvtav1enc1 libtiff6 libtirpc-dev libtsan2 libubsan1 libwebp7 libx265-199 libxpm4 libyuv0 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev meson ninja-build patch rpcsvc-protoThe install itself is relatively straightforward, with all the customization within /etc/ztab which is by default setup for a raspberry pi:
Code:
apt -y install lzip
wget https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config/releases/download/v1.7.0/zram-config-v1.7.0.tar.lz
tar xvf zram*
cd zram-config-v1.7.0
bash install.bash
sed -i "s|^swap.*|swap lzo-rle 0M 1T 32767 0 100|g" /etc/ztab
sed -i "s|^log.*|log zstd 16G 32G /var/log /log.bind /opt/zram/oldlog|g" /etc/ztab
echo "dir zstd 50M 150M /var/lib/pve-cluster /pve-cluster.bind" >> /etc/ztabAfterwards, with this config, writes are substantially minimized:
Code:
2025-02-21 14:27:21 root@c13:~# cat /etc/ztab |grepconf
swap lzo-rle 0M 128G 32767 0 100
log zstd 16G 32G /var/log /log.bind /opt/zram/oldlog
dir zstd 50M 150M /var/lib/pve-cluster /pve-cluster.bind
2025-02-21 14:27:28 root@c13:~# zramctl
NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle 1T 4K 88B 12K 48 [SWAP]
/dev/zram1 zstd 32G 638.8M 97.3M 102M 48 /opt/zram/zram1
/dev/zram2 zstd 150M 15.8M 3.5M 4.1M 48 /opt/zram/zram2
2025-02-21 14:38:22 root@c13:~#
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