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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Swapfile compression
- Message-ID: <1992Dec10.224206.1776@seer.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <1992Dec9.105725.27197@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 22:42:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.105725.27197@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) writes:
- > What is the advantage to having this swapfile compression? Does it
- reduce
- > the amount of swapping that is done to disk? Having an extra 16MB in
- disk
- > space gone just like that is not good unless the returns are
- exceptional.
-
- It's not *extra* diskspace (if I read your intention correctly).
- swapfile.front is just a view onto swapfile; the only file that occupies
- real disk space is swapfile.
-
- Apart from that, I'd would also like to know what good turning it on will
- do. I find it hard to be convinced that compressing (which takes time) a
- swapfile (which MUST be fast) is a good idea.
-
- Paul
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