Compressed pages to/from swap devices/files?

Christopher Horn (chorn@warwick.net)
Wed, 14 Feb 96 21:24:12 EST

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There was some talk on the development newsgroup about compressed
memory schemes and things like that. Also mentioned was a patch from a
few years back that compressed pages before swapping to disk. I'm not
sure if the CPU overhead would make it worthwhile, and of course you
need some free memory to do compression in the first place. Does
anyone think something like this might be worth pursuing?

Christopher Horn
chorn@warwick.net

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