diff --git a/host_vars/repro1.pkgbuild.com/misc b/host_vars/repro1.pkgbuild.com/misc
index 490e6d5fa67acfc00e74b92aecefa9579b4d0fd8..8e917110f96dcf9135670850897a56d4d1db6170 100644
--- a/host_vars/repro1.pkgbuild.com/misc
+++ b/host_vars/repro1.pkgbuild.com/misc
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ system_disks:
   - /dev/sda
 configure_network: true
 
+# repro1 has a big swap partition; avoid zram and rely on zswap instead
+enable_zram_swap: false
+
 rebuilderd_workers:
  - repro11
  - repro12