Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) | | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:43:08 -0400 |
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On Thursday 27 October 2011 11:52:22 Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Hi Linus --
> SO... Please pull: > > git://oss.oracle.com/git/djm/tmem.git #tmem >
My wife has an old PC thats short on memory. Its got Ubuntu running on it. It also has cleancache and zram enabled. The box works better when using these. Frontcache would improve things further. It will balance the tmem vs physical memory dynamicily making it a better solution than zram.
I'd love to see this in the kernel.
Thanks Ed Tomlinson
PS. At work we use AIX with memory compression. With the workloads we run compression lets the OS act like it has 30% more memory. It works. It would be nice to have a similar facility in Linux.
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