Re: swap cache

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:03:43 -0300


Iain McClatchie <iain@mcclatchie.com> said:

[...]

> My guess is that a compressed swap would be most useful in an
> embedded application which has no hard disk and is trying to get
> by on the minimum possible RAM.

In that case, get the application itself to handle compression (or more
space-efficient use of space, in general). It knows best...

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