Re: Linux Kernel Dump Summit 2005

jerome lacoste
2005-10-12T21:02:52Z

On 10/12/05, Felix Oxley <lkml@oxley.org> wrote:
>
> Thank you for helping a clueless newbie :-)
>
> > Notice that suspend2 project actually introduced compression *for
> > speed*. Doing it right means that it is faster to do it
> > compressed.
>
> I see!
> Little benchmarks here: http://wiki.suspend2.net/BenchMarks
> shows 15% speed _increase_ with compression.

But in the LZF case, there's 100 M more memory in the cache. That
certainly has some I/O perf. impact, right?

Jerome