Re: Page compression in lieu of swap?

From: Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 20:09:10 EST


On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:06, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2003 01:35, Timothy Miller wrote:
> > I did some searching of the kernel archives and the only things
> > related to the forthcoming idea had to do with compressing pages when
> > writing to swap and doing compressed disks. Here's a different
> > idea...
>
> http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/
>
> This the same thing?

Yes it is and works very well. However it isn't smp or preemptible aware yet.
I have a patch against -ck* as well, but it isn't popular because of preempt
incompatibility.

Con
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