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SubjectRe: RAM compression?
> On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > Is anybody has thought about writing/replacing a part of the kernel for
> > RAM compression? this would 1. reduce swapping and 2. make swapping
> > faster... this would be useful mostly to compress page tables, text
> > buffers, data segments of zero-filled buffers, etc., obviously. this
> > should be tunable to different levels of compression (-0 through -9), via
> > a /proc file.
> This is of little use on a true preemptive multitasking OS, since other
> processes can run while you're waiting for your disks. Without true preemptive
> multitasking, those waiting time would be spilled.

it happens often that a single threaded (?) single process which is the
center of attention gobbles half of the RAM, or is it just me? (e.g.:
Nutscape) in which case it should make sense??


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