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zRAM, virtual memory, IO scheduler and various Arch Linux desktop tweaks.

• Enabled one swap zRAM device with a size of:

  • Total system memory for PCs with less than 16GB of RAM
  • 16GB for PCs with more than 16GB of RAM

• Pop!_OS sysctl vm tweaks:

  vm.swappiness = 180vm.page-cluster = 0vm.watermark_boost_factor = 0vm.watermark_scale_factor = 125vm.dirty_bytes = 268435456vm.dirty_background_bytes = 134217728

• Pop!_OS IO schedulers tweaks, set the default IO schedulers:

  • bfq for HDD and SD cards
  • kyber for NVMe and SATA SSDs.

• Set MGLRUmin_ttl_ms to 1000ms

• Faster Shutdown and Reboot times

  [Manager]DefaultTimeoutStopSec=10s

• Simply run this command:

  makepkg -si

• Remember to disablezswap by addingzswap.enabled=0 to the kernel parameters
• If you have a swap partition, delete it. Also delete it from the/etc/fstab file.