Thread (83 messages) 83 messages, 25 authors, 2009-08-17

Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed)

From: Al Boldi <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-14 04:02:05
Also in: lkml

Nitin Gupta wrote:
compcache is really not really a swap replacement. Its just another
swap device that
compresses data and stores it in memory itself. You can have disk
based swaps along
with ramzswap (name of block device).
So once compcache fills up, it will start to age its contents into normal 
swap?


Thanks!

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Al

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