[yjftsjthsd-h]

Would swap on zram work? I've used that to help with low-memory situations, but I'm not sure if the Pi's CPU is fast enough to avoid it being a different bottleneck.

[washadjeffmad]

It does work, and it's how I ran the same pi when it was a host to a particularly bloated java app prone to exceeding its -Xmx.