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On St 12-10-05 10:56:46, Felix Oxley wrote: > > Thank you for helping a clueless newbie :-) > > > Notice that suspend2 project actually introduced compression *for > > speed*. Doing it right means that it is faster to do it > > compressed. > > I see! > Little benchmarks here: http://wiki.suspend2.net/BenchMarks > shows 15% speed _increase_ with compression. > > > See Jamie Lokier's description how to *never* slow down. > Sorry, where is this? Somewhere on the lkml, *long* ago. Basically idea is to have one thread doing writing to disk, and second thread doing compression. If no compressed pages are available, just write uncompressed ones. That way compression can only speed things up. Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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