Re: memory compress tech...

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:34:42 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 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.

I missed the beginning of this thread, but this sounds to me like
what is being implemented at http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/

regards,

Dave.

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