Re: compressed page caching (good idea... who'll help me do it?)

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:28:14 +0100


Hi!

> In the short term, I'm interested in gathering traces of paging traffic
> for Linux systems, so that we can run them through our simulators and
> see what will work best for Linux specifically. (I am currently looking
> at special algorithms for detecting and compressing x86 machine code. Others
> have done a good job of this in terms of compression ratios, but I want to
> do a pretty good job *really*fast*, for compressed paging purposes.)

Mount swap & root over nbd and watch what happens on server?
Pavel

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Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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