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Your 2 GB VPS Isn't Slow — It's Swapping Wrong

Compressed swap in RAM sounds like a magic trick, but it's the cheapest performance upgrade for small VPSes and old laptops. Here's the 15-minute zram setup, the tuning that makes it work, and the honest limits of what it can do.

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