"There are two primary reasons why the price of RAM has jumped: Supply chain bottlenecks and geopolitical instability Explosive demand from AI and data centers As AI continues to grow in popularity, the price of RAM will most likely continue to climb (or remain flat at the higher prices). If those out-of-control price increases make adding RAM to your Linux system(s) prevent you from upgrading, what can you do?"
"ZRAM is a compressed swap space that is used entirely in RAM. When your system is low on memory, it typically uses a traditional swap space, which is slower than a RAM-based space. Because ZRAM keeps swapped data in memory, it's much faster than a standard swap-system. Installing ZRAM What you'll need: The only things you'll need for this are a running instance of Linux and a user with sudo preferences."
RAM prices have surged dramatically, driven by supply-chain bottlenecks, geopolitical instability, and soaring demand from AI and data centers. Rising RAM cost may prevent hardware upgrades for many Linux users. ZRAM provides a software alternative by creating a compressed swap space entirely in RAM, which is faster than traditional disk-based swap. ZRAM can extend usable memory and improve responsiveness on memory-constrained systems. Some distributions, such as Fedora and certain Debian-based variants like Pop!_OS, include ZRAM by default. On Debian-based systems, zram-tools can be installed with sudo apt-get install zram-tools -y for immediate configuration.
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