#zswap
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #zswap from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #zswap
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:54 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:54 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #zswap.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 15:54 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~53909 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 15:00
Languages: English (26) · Indonesian (2) · Spanish (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · Chinese (1) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
I've been trying to figure out how to address/work around #Linux 's hunger for RAM and non-ideal/insufficient controls around this. I remembered seeing an article by #KDE about them trying to address this themselves on their new distro and
According to LWN kernel source DB, the number of my Linux mainline commits exceeded 1,000 with 6.19-rc1. It feels like a moment to me. Most commits were made for DAMON, but the 1,000-th commit was for zswap ;) $ git log --oneline --author "
This is the power of zswap! A before and after screenshot of the same operation running with high swap usage on one of our hypervisors with RAM constraints. #Linux #zswap #compression
What “zswap” means
Wikipediazswap is a Linux kernel feature that provides a compressed write-back cache for swapped pages, as a form of virtual memory compression. Instead of moving memory pages to a swap device when they are to be swapped out, zswap compresses them and then stores them in a memory pool dynamically allocated in the system RAM. This way, writeback to the actual swap device is deferred or even completely avoided, resulting in a significantly reduced I/O load for systems that require swapping; the tradeoff is
“Zswap” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#zswap across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #zswap straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/zswap