Re: Re: Swap Compression

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:22:11 -0700

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 07:51:47PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> Segments are old, stupid and x86 only. What you want is a number of
> pages, maybe just one at a time. Always compress chunks of the same
> size and you don't have to guess the decompressed size.

Well, not really, but x86's notion of segments differs substantially
from that held by other cpus.

-- wli
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