324: RAMburglars

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

Plus we take a look at Pop!_OS 19.10, complete our Ubuntu 19.10 review, cover community news, and lots more.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Links:

• Unix Turns 50
• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs) - YouTube
• Fedora at 15: Why Matthew Miller sees a bright future for the Linux distribution
• How a business was built on podcasts for Linux: The story of Jupiter Broadcasting
• Introducing Steam Remote Play Together
• Donate to the Gnome Foundation Patent Troll Defense Fund
• Texas Cyber Summit - Extras 24
• Texas Cyber Summit - Blog Post
• Texas Cyber Summit - Photo Gallery
• Bug #1848790 “USB not working under arm64 on Pi4”
• EXT4 Stock Benchmarks
• ZFS on Root Benchmarks
• EXT vs ZFS Comparison
• ZFS on Root Lowmem Benchmarks
• ZFS on Root vs EXT4 Lowmem Comparison
• All tests compared
• Phoronix tests
• Kernel Parameters, see mem=
• Carl’s Deets about 19.10
• Tensorman
• thinkpad-tools: Tools to manage Thinkpad properties