Thank you very much! This looks very interesting. I'll keep it in mind.
AJ ONeal On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:28 AM, John McCabe-Dansted <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:35 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > > The bugs I've already been bitten by is that if you have no swap the > kernel > > will default to sending the oom (out-of-memory) killer on any random > process > > One thing I have found quite useful is compcache. This allows you to > use compressed ram a swap-device. It doesn't need a physical disk and > has zero latency so it avoids many of the disadvantages of physical > swap devices. It tends to give a 4:1 compression ratio, though I > wouldn't recommend a compressed ram swap device much larger than 50% > of ram or so. > > http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ > > -- > John C. McCabe-Dansted > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
