Looking forward to 2.7
Looking forward to 2.7
Posted Jun 26, 2003 3:05 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305)Parent article: Looking forward to 2.7
I'm looking forward to the compressed caching patch, which creates a "swap space" of compressed pages between uncompressed pages and the swap space on disk. As memory gets faster and cheaper, using CPU time to compress pages in memory can sometimes be faster than writing them to disk.
There is such a patch for Linux, but it does seem to get much testing.
http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/
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