Re: memory compress tech...

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ignacio@openservices.net)
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:01:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ted Unangst wrote:

> maybe for compressing swap? you have to read less data off the disk,
> which is faster. and the processor is probably idling anyway, waiting on
> disk.

Ah, now THAT is a good idea.

Compressing groups of pages, probably 16k at a time, and storing them on 20k
boundaries will result in a loss of swap space but a probable increase in
speed. And the boundary alignment will probably simplify bookkeeping. You
shouldn't be using swap anyways, so a 20% loss probably isn't a huge deal.

Maybe someone with a little more experience in the area of swap management
under Linux should take over the discussion from here...

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>

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