From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so1124190nfh.6 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:16:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:16:41 +0900 From: "John McCabe-Dansted" Subject: Re: [linux-mm-cc] Announce: ccache release 0.1 In-Reply-To: <4cefeab80802181339ia9609d3oeb238a9f549fc6e5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4cefeab80802181339ia9609d3oeb238a9f549fc6e5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nitin Gupta Cc: linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxcompressed-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Feb 19, 2008 6:39 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi All, > > I am excited to announce first release of ccache - Compressed RAM > based swap device for Linux (2.6.x kernel). > - Project home: http://code.google.com/p/ccache/ > - ccache-0.1: http://ccache.googlecode.com/files/ccache-0.1.tar.bz2 I find it counter intuitive that ccache-0.1 is newer than ccache-2.4: http://ccache.samba.org/ Perhaps you should rename this, perhaps to ccacheM (module). FYI, ccache still seems solid under Hardy. A 128MB ccache swap allowed me to easily install from the liveCD on a VM with only 192MB of ram, rather than the 384MB officially required for Gutsy. However I found a funny bug in ubiquity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193267 http://www.ucc.asn.au/~mccabedj/ccache/Screenshot-Hardy-fdccache.png Installing Hardy to /dev/ccache sound like a great idea ;) I am using a DualCore, with the iso sitting on the harddisk, so a real low-mem machine could be a lot slower. however Ubuntu is meant to require 384MB of memory to install and 256MB of memory to use. It seems that by adding ccache to the liveCD we could just state a single figure of 256MB (which is 64MB less than 256MB, so we are giving ourselves plenty of breathing space for RAM stealing video cards, unexpected usage spikes etc.) -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org