zRam and Swapspace

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 07:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tried swapspace on my mother's laptop and there was no swap. I'll have
>> to try again...
>
> Did you load a pile of apps to stress the memory?
>
> No memory load, no swap - that's what demand-based swap *means*.

I had 14 WSJ tabs open in Firefox and had apt-get running in
gnome-terminal. I'll have to try with more...