Duh. My belief was the fix was in there but it wasn’t. Added.
That’s right and reasonable not to use zram in this case… However zram does not exclusively apply to and help with DB data but also logs and swap (few know and everyone is overlooking this).
I would therefore not switch off zram completely but rather remove the Influx storage directory from zram. Just edit /etc/ztab to accomplish that.
PS: you should have told upfront about your use case. You made us victim to the XY problem:
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