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    SubjectRe: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed)
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    On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Al Boldi<a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
    > Nitin Gupta wrote:
    >> BTW, last time compcache was not accepted due to lack of performance
    >> numbers. Now the project has lot more data for various cases:
    >> http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/Performance
    >> Still need to collect data for worst-case behaviors and such...
    >
    > I checked the link, and it looks like you are positioning compcache as a swap
    > replacement.  If so, then repositioning it as a compressed pre-swap area
    > working together with normal swap-space, if available, may yield a much more
    > powerful system.
    >
    >

    compcache is really not really a swap replacement. Its just another
    swap device that
    compresses data and stores it in memory itself. You can have disk
    based swaps along
    with ramzswap (name of block device).

    Nitin
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