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Not interested in distros. I have a cheap 1GB RAM Ubuntu vps that needs to run stuff requiring 3+GB of RAM resulting in 2+GB swap file. My gut instinct tells (incorrectly?) me it should be possible tweak Linux for such conditions. I dont expect miracles (or maybe I do?) but it has to do a thing that can take up to an hour, getting this time down a bit would be great. If it is slower under normal conditions I don't care as I can just set setting to defaults under such normal conditions.

I have experimented a bit with zswap and "think" performance got a bit better with some values. Will try zram next.

Not interested in distros. I have a cheap 1GB RAM Ubuntu vps that needs to run stuff requiring 3+GB of RAM resulting in 2+GB swap file. My gut instinct tells (incorrectly?) me it should be possible tweak Linux for such conditions. I dont expect miracles (or maybe I do?) but it has to do a thing that can take up to an hour, getting this time down a bit would be great. If it is slower under normal conditions I don't care as I can just set setting to defaults under such normal conditions. I have experimented a bit with zswap and "think" performance got a bit better with some values. Will try zram next.

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If you have the knowhow, build your own kernel from source.

I've never built my own kernel, I guess that'd weeks to learn well if not longer. I might be able try a different distro though, but then my scripts and stuff probably has to be adapted to that distro.

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Check Gentoo docs. That masochist distro makes you compile everything from source so that would probably be a good start, if your serious. I don't know that it's worth the effort, but good on ya if your gonna try