Re: compressed swap performance issues

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:32:35 +0000


On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:10:21AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> - - This makes sense for _one_ user machines _only_. For multiuser machines,
> you have something better for the CPU to do than to compress/decompress
> pages for swapping

Depends. Some multiuser machines spend a lot of time idle.

> - - With today's RAM and disk prices, the diskless machines that used to swap
> over the net are long gone history

Not so -- PCs that normally run MS Windows are sometimes booted into
running Linux over a network. There is a disk but it's not used.
Though in this case compressed NFS would be more important than
compressed swapping.

-- Jamie

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