How to enable zramfs in android...

[sandeep kumar]

Dear Anders

>Yes, zram is activated, otherwise you wouldn't have had zram0 created.

>Though you might not be using it...
>If you want to use it for swap, you'll have to run `swapon -p 100
/dev/zram0`.
>Well, '-p 100' isn't necessary, it's just to set the swap priority.

In my system /dev/zram0 is not present but sys/block/zram0 is present.
thats why i m having this doubt

thanks
sandeep


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Anders Darander
<anders.darander at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 22 May 2014 12:58, sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > we are trying to make use of zramfs. In our android based board,
> > we are seeing this output,
> >
> > root at sandeep:/sys/block/zram0 # ls
>
> >
> > Does this mean zram is activated ?
>
> Yes, zram is activated, otherwise you wouldn't have had zram0 created.
>
> Though you might not be using it...
> If you want to use it for swap, you'll have to run `swapon -p 100
> /dev/zram0`.
> Well, '-p 100' isn't necessary, it's just to set the swap priority.
>
> > we are trying to do the operation to set disk size,
> > echo $((50*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
>
> This should have set the size of zram0.
>
> Cheers,
> Anders
>
> --
> Anders Darander
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>



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With regards,
Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
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