Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:32:56 -0500 | | From | Matthew Sayler <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on |
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I remember back in '99 when Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> writes: > > Compressive paging > > Before writing a page out to swap, compress it. > > Keeps coming back every once in a while. Has already been tried in a few > cases, and it has some definite advantages in a few cases. But it also has > some nasty difficulties. Sadly every experiment I know of ended up stopping > as soon as some code worked and showed little improvement.
If you're interested in this sort if thing, you might try looking at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/oops/compressed-caching/index.html
There is quite a bit of research material there (some of which was presented at the most recent USENIX). I know that one of the authors was planning to hammer out an implementation for Linux this summer.
Matt
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