Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:01:49 +0530 | Subject | Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) | From | Nitin Gupta <> |
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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).
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