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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-09-21 20:10, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 09/21/2013 08:59 PM, JM wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:11:47 +0300
>> Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/21/2013 08:00 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>> At this point it seems that we are trapped between a rock and a hard place.
>>>>
>>>> Kernel team <> ISO team. ::SIGH:: Such frustrations led to my resigning
>>>> from various teams, I've asked a couple of people who can make an ISO with
>>>> the test kernel if they would. Other than that, my hands are tied.
>>>>
>>>> We need an ISO with the patch that has been already applied upstream into
>>>> it.... Grrrrr.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Phill.
>>>
>>> I did try this kernel the other day and it did lock up just like the one
>>> in the repository:
>>>
>>> linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb
>>>
>>> I thought I wrote it in a message, but can't find it in my archive, so
>>> maybe I didn't.
>>>
>>> So far turning off zram seems to be the only thing that works.  Or at
>>> least seems to work, so far so good.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Lars
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is Joyce Markoll, aka Mélodie. I have used zram for many years in different shapes
>> (ramzswap once upon a time when it was only in the compcache project) and I am very
>> interested to see it setup in Lubuntu.
>>
>> I wanted to join the testing since some time now but didn't find the right moment for it
>> (except a fast test in a vbox machine some time ago), but now I'm zsyncing the iso to
>> test it in one of my old machines. (T30 1 GB ram and intel 1.86 Mhz proc).
>>
>> Just a thought:
>> have you set it up to create block devices which are as large as 50% of
>> the available ram, and one of those block devices for each processor detected, or did you
>> setup other values? 
>>
>> which method is used to start it at boot time?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mélodie
>>
>> --
>>
>> LinuxVillage
>> http://linuxvillage.org
> 
> I've used whatever the default for the recent ISOs has been.  If you
> have a recipe for how to create the block devices you mention, I can try
> that in tomorrow's run.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
Hi Mélodie,

+1 for me.

I have also used whatever the default setting for zRAM has been in Lubuntu.

Best regards
Nio