Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed)
From: Al Boldi
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 00:02:17 EST
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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