Re: compressed swap performance issues

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:10:21 -0300


"Paul R. Wilson" <wilson@cs.utexas.edu> said:
> [Excellent discussion of compressing swap in RAM snipped]

Just a couple of points:

- This makes sense for _one_ user machines _only_. For multiuser machines,
you have something better for the CPU to do than to compress/decompress
pages for swapping
- As you say, most Linux users (even personal machines) don't use swap very
much, they have got the RAM
- With today's RAM and disk prices, the diskless machines that used to swap
over the net are long gone history

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