> Also i was thinking about one of the other suggestions that was made
> regardin g the compression of a page(s) to a portion of the RAM, and
> uncompress it as part of the swap back in. Although the
> compression/un-compression has to be measured against the I/O cost.
Not only. Your CPU can be happily computing away at process A while
process B pages in some. However, if this "pagein" is really "uncompress a
page from RAM", your process A looses the use of the CPU. Might be a win
in (mostly) one-process (i.e., one-user) machines, but I wouldn't loose
sleep over that: Today's one-user PCs are mostly grotesquely overpowered
anyway, and the added complexity isn't worth a minor performance advantage
for personal use, IMVHO.
Or is there something else I'm overlooking here?
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