From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262639AbTDMAze (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:55:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262641AbTDMAze (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:55:34 -0400 Received: from c17870.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:27045 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262639AbTDMAzd (for ); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:55:33 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Jan Knutar , "Timothy Miller" , Subject: Re: Page compression in lieu of swap? Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:09:10 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <000d01c30143$ccf54ad0$6801a8c0@epimetheus> <03041303065500.26409@polaris> In-Reply-To: <03041303065500.26409@polaris> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304131109.10326.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:06, Jan Knutar wrote: > On Sunday 13 April 2003 01:35, Timothy Miller wrote: > > I did some searching of the kernel archives and the only things > > related to the forthcoming idea had to do with compressing pages when > > writing to swap and doing compressed disks. Here's a different > > idea... > > http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/ > > This the same thing? Yes it is and works very well. However it isn't smp or preemptible aware yet. I have a patch against -ck* as well, but it isn't popular because of preempt incompatibility. Con