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No-I/O dirty throttling

Posted Sep 18, 2011 10:17 UTC (Sun) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: No-I/O dirty throttling by zmi
Parent article: No-I/O dirty throttling

Compressed RAM swap could also be an interesting test-case.

The differences to normal swap devices are:
- swapping causes CPU load, not IO load
- smaller than the amount of RAM instead of larger

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