Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file

docwhat@gerf.org ;The Doctor What ("docwhat@gerf.org)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:12:06 -0800

Telephone Game! Rik van Riel said (on 01:19 AM 2/20/98 +0100):
->Sorry Jim and Adam, compressed swap has already been
->implemented and tried. The results were:
->- more CPU spent on swapping --> slower system
->- more I/O spent on swapping because the I/O patterns
-> became more complex than normal swap --> slower system

Can't optimize this by compressing on a per page basis? I'm not overly
familiar with the theory, but it seems that there is less to compress
(yeah, the compression isn't as good) and less for the CPU to worry about.

Hmmm.... If only there was intellegent hardware that could do this for
us...

Just an Idea
-=Doc

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