echo /dev/sda5 > /sys/block/zramX/backing_dev
-before disksize setting. It supports only partition at this moment.
-If admin wants to use incompressible page writeback, they could do via::
+before disksize setting. It supports only partitions at this moment.
+If admin wants to use incompressible page writeback, they could do it via::
echo huge > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
echo idle > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
-With the command, zram writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
+With the command, zram will writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
-If admin want to write a specific page in zram device to backing device,
+If an admin wants to write a specific page in zram device to the backing device,
they could write a page index into the interface.
echo "page_index=1251" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
To overcome the concern, zram supports "writeback_limit" feature.
The "writeback_limit_enable"'s default value is 0 so that it doesn't limit
-any writeback. IOW, if admin wants to apply writeback budget, he should
+any writeback. IOW, if admin wants to apply writeback budget, they should
enable writeback_limit_enable via::
$ echo 1 > /sys/block/zramX/writeback_limit_enable
(If admin doesn't enable writeback_limit_enable, writeback_limit's value
assigned via /sys/block/zramX/writeback_limit is meaningless.)
-If admin want to limit writeback as per-day 400M, he could do it
+If admin wants to limit writeback as per-day 400M, they could do it
like below::
$ MB_SHIFT=20
$ echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit_enable
If admins want to allow further write again once the budget is exhausted,
-he could do it like below::
+they could do it like below::
$ echo $((400<<MB_SHIFT>>4K_SHIFT)) > \
/sys/block/zram0/writeback_limit
-If admin wants to see remaining writeback budget since last set::
+If an admin wants to see the remaining writeback budget since last set::
$ cat /sys/block/zramX/writeback_limit
-If admin want to disable writeback limit, he could do::
+If an admin wants to disable writeback limit, they could do::
$ echo 0 > /sys/block/zramX/writeback_limit_enable
writeback happened until you reset the zram to allocate extra writeback
budget in next setting is user's job.
-If admin wants to measure writeback count in a certain period, he could
+If admin wants to measure writeback count in a certain period, they could
know it via /sys/block/zram0/bd_stat's 3rd column.
memory tracking