From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165316B002D for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:43:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:43:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1777884.rjTZT9Wj01@grover> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Konrad Wilk , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Seth Jennings , ngupta@vflare.org, levinsasha928@gmail.com, Chris Mason , JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen , Jonathan Corbet , Neo Jia On Thursday 27 October 2011 11:52:22 Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Hi Linus -- > SO... Please pull: > > git://oss.oracle.com/git/djm/tmem.git #tmem > My wife has an old PC thats short on memory. Its got Ubuntu running on it. It also has cleancache and zram enabled. The box works better when using these. Frontcache would improve things further. It will balance the tmem vs physical memory dynamicily making it a better solution than zram. I'd love to see this in the kernel. Thanks Ed Tomlinson PS. At work we use AIX with memory compression. With the workloads we run compression lets the OS act like it has 30% more memory. It works. It would be nice to have a similar facility in Linux. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org