Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:52:19 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Russell Coker - mailing lists account wrote:

> >Remember y'all the kernel swaps PAGES. On Intel Machines, a PAGE is 8192
>
> On Intel it's 4096, it's 8192 on Alpha. Architectures such as M68K and PPC
> allow you to choose the page size from a range.

Yes. A lot caught me on this. Too much Alpha WORK work...work.. does it!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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