Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:01:24 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <> | | Subject | Re: memory compress tech... |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ted Unangst wrote:
> maybe for compressing swap? you have to read less data off the disk, > which is faster. and the processor is probably idling anyway, waiting on > disk.
Ah, now THAT is a good idea.
Compressing groups of pages, probably 16k at a time, and storing them on 20k boundaries will result in a loss of swap space but a probable increase in speed. And the boundary alignment will probably simplify bookkeeping. You shouldn't be using swap anyways, so a 20% loss probably isn't a huge deal.
Maybe someone with a little more experience in the area of swap management under Linux should take over the discussion from here...
-- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
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