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you could also try zram I have found lz4 to still be quite fast and its seems to compress around 4x I have 50% of my memory compressed

zramctl

NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram7 lz4 1.9G 477.4M 109.2M 116.5M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram6 lz4 1.9G 472.8M 108.2M 115M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram5 lz4 1.9G 474.6M 109.7M 116.5M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram4 lz4 1.9G 480.2M 109.7M 117.3M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram3 lz4 1.9G 476.7M 109.9M 116.8M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram2 lz4 1.9G 479.8M 108.1M 115.2M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram1 lz4 1.9G 474.4M 107.8M 114.6M 8 [SWAP]
/dev/zram0 lz4 1.9G 475.6M 107.9M 115M 8 [SWAP]