How To Install Zramswap On Debian, Ubuntu And Kali?

How To Install Zramswap On Debian, Ubuntu And Kali?

zramswap

utilities for working with zram

Maintainer: Jonathan Carter



Section: utils

Install zramswap

  • Debian apt-get install zram-tools Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install zram-tools Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install zram-tools Click to copy

zram-tools

utilities for working with zram

zram is a Linux kernel module that allows you to set up compressed filesystems in RAM. zram-tools uses this module to set up compressed swap space. This is useful on systems with low memory or servers running a large amount of services with data that's easily swappable but that you may wish to swap back fast without sacrificing disk bandwidth. By default it allocates 100MB of RAM, you can configure this in /etc/default/zramswap.conf

Installing zramswap command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu and Kali operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of zramswap 2026 package in your OS.