Hello, I have been a user of Compcache almost since the beginning. I had installed it to Archlinux, when it came out in version 5.x, then with the version 6.x, and have been very happy to use it and try it to a Debian minimal version I had installed to an old machine as well.
I am astonished to still see in my dmesg : "zram: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. " after... almost 5 years of development ? I have been told at the #kernelnewbies chan that in the kernel 3.4.0-rc2 (at least his 3.4.0-rc2 era git tree) still has the zram module source code in drivers/staging. I have seen that a few issues have been reported at the Compcache website project, so I suppose some issues do exist... I am only a simple user, and can only say in my computers : PC with either Intel or AMD processors, single or dual-core, I didn't find any perverse effect. (Simple user, not sophisticated benchmark here). I have now been using it with a script meant to load it with the default recommended configuration, making a device large as 1/4the of the available ram, one block device only, in PCLinuxOS, since 2 years, on 3 different machines minimum, with an visible improvement while using it : some virtual machines (in Virtualbox) which would not be usable otherwise were usable, and some people have tested installing with a gui installer needing some resource, on a machine having 128 MB ram, without the need to create a swap file to compensate the lack of RAM memory. So I will have a simple question here : what is missing to Compcache for it to be taken out of the staging directory in the kernel tree ? Many regards, and lots of thanks for this component !! Mélodie _______________________________________________ linux-mm-cc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/linux-mm-cc
