diff --git a/plinth/modules/config/__init__.py b/plinth/modules/config/__init__.py
index 7a55a1c0b..45e3fde71 100644
--- a/plinth/modules/config/__init__.py
+++ b/plinth/modules/config/__init__.py
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ _description = [
 
 depends = ['apache', 'firewall', 'names']
 
+managed_packages = ['zram-tools']
+
 APACHE_CONF_ENABLED_DIR = '/etc/apache2/conf-enabled'
 APACHE_HOMEPAGE_CONF_FILE_NAME = 'freedombox-apache-homepage.conf'
 APACHE_HOMEPAGE_CONFIG = os.path.join(APACHE_CONF_ENABLED_DIR,
@@ -183,6 +185,7 @@ def set_advanced_mode(advanced_mode):
 
 def setup(helper, old_version=None):
     """Install and configure the module."""
+    helper.install(managed_packages)
     _migrate_home_page_config()
 
     # systemd-journald is socket activated, it may not be running and it does
diff --git a/plinth/modules/config/data/lib/systemd/system/zramswap.service.d/freedombox.conf b/plinth/modules/config/data/lib/systemd/system/zramswap.service.d/freedombox.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01035eaa6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plinth/modules/config/data/lib/systemd/system/zramswap.service.d/freedombox.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Set the size of the swap to be 50% of RAM. Expected compression is 1:2. That
+# means in an average case, 25% of RAM is consumed to provide the swap device.
+# This results in the system being able to consume about 125% of RAM capacity to
+# run processes. This value is inspired by Fedora which made zram the default
+# swap mechanism. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM
+[Service]
+Environment=PERCENT=50