On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 11:21 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:36AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:36 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > > Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > > Please consider setting CONFIG_RAMZSWAP (a.k.a. compcache), which > > > > enables a ram based compressed swap device. i think it can be > > > > enabled as a module, but i'm not sure. > > > > > > > > This feature is very useful to thin clients, embedded devices, or > > > > other environments with limited ram and no conventional swap device > > > > available. > > > > > > This is also useful for Debian Live images generated using the > > > live-helper and live-initramfs packages. Using Sid's live-helper to > > > build an Ubuntu 10.04 live image already results in a 25% ramzswap, so > > > I guess Ubuntu have patched compcache into their default .32 kernel. > > > > Would you like me to add this to 2.6.32 for squeeze, then? > > if it's not too difficult, sure! i had thought it only made it upstream as > recently as 2.6.33.
Indeed, but it seems trivial to backport. Please test it when 2.6.32-11 is released. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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