neonred@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Turned my shitty Intel Atom 32-bit laptop with just 1GB of RAM into a useful lightweight workstation
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18 days agobtop makes the dedicated gpu turn on, wasting energy and disrupting its power saving. yes, this can not be disabled in btop, so it happily shows no load on the gpu. gee, thanks.
you could add another layer of swap in between ram and disk by using
zram
. as it compresses swap in ram with a very fast compressing algorithm it effectively expands the ram size