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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: cutaway@bellsouth.net
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap maximum size documented ?
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:57:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <429E4B7C.9080003@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002501c566f7$7ed2b2e0$2800000a@pc365dualp2>

cutaway@bellsouth.net wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>
>To: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com>
>Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 15:47
>Subject: Re: Swap maximum size documented ?
>
>
>  
>
>>>>Does this apply to mmap as well? I have an application which currently
>>>>uses 9TB of data....
>>>>        
>>>>
>
>With this much data, you might consider investigating its compressability.
>If it turned out to be highly compressable, algorithmic changes in how the
>data is handled might considerably lighten the load on MM and disk
>subsystems.  Its almost always cheaper to compress/decompress cached data in
>memory than hit physical media.
>

The majority of the records are compressed as of about a decade ago.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-02  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-01 12:25 Swap maximum size documented ? david.balazic
2005-06-01 12:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-01 12:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-06-01 12:58   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-01 13:02     ` David Balažic
2005-06-01 13:40       ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-01 19:10         ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-01 19:29           ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-01 19:47             ` Bill Davidsen
2005-06-01 20:08               ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-01 22:15               ` cutaway
2005-06-01 23:57                 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-06-01 20:43           ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-01 20:54             ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-01 21:05               ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-01 23:49                 ` Bill Davidsen

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