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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: "'jw schultz'" <jw@pegasys.ws>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swap Compression
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 10:07:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030508080712.GA1469@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A46BBDB345A7D5118EC90002A5072C780C8FE1E2@orsmsx116.jf.intel.com>

On Wed, 7 May 2003 20:17:32 -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> 
> This reminds me of some howto I saw somewhere of someway to
> use the MTD drivers to access the unused video RAM and turn
> it into swap (maybe with blkmtd?) ... probably it can be done
> with that too.

Jupp, if you know the physical address range of the RAM, it's a piece
of cake. Except that the slram option parsing is not user-friendly,
with me being an examplary user.

For memory above 4GB, things are harder. Basically you'd have to write
a new mtd driver that copies some of the highmem code. Maybe a day or
two plus testing.

> I'd really love it ... I don't know if I can blame it on highmem
> or not, but since I enabled it, my system 'feels' slower.

Go ahead and try it. If it 'feels' faster, it should be possible to
benchmark your feeling into some numbers.

Jörn

-- 
Victory in war is not repetitious.
-- Sun Tzu

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-08  3:17 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-05-08  8:07 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-09  3:21 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-04-29 20:07 Timothy Miller
2003-04-29 20:40 ` rmoser
2003-04-29 21:14   ` John Bradford
2003-04-30  0:59     ` rmoser
2003-04-30  2:48       ` Con Kolivas
2003-04-30 12:59         ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-30 19:18           ` rmoser
2003-05-01 22:07           ` rmoser
2003-05-02  2:46             ` jw schultz
2003-04-25 22:48 rmoser
2003-04-26  9:17 ` Jörn Engel
     [not found]   ` <200304261148590300.00CE9372@smtp.comcast.net>
     [not found]     ` <20030426160920.GC21015@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
2003-04-27  2:24       ` rmoser
2003-04-27  9:04         ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-27 17:24           ` rmoser
2003-04-27 17:51             ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-27 18:31               ` rmoser
2003-04-27 19:04                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-28  8:52                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-04-28 10:26                     ` Jörn Engel
     [not found]                 ` <3EAE8899.2010208@techsource.com>
     [not found]                   ` <200304291521120230.0462A551@smtp.comcast.net>
2003-04-29 19:21                     ` rmoser
     [not found]         ` <3EADAA5D.1090408@techsource.com>
     [not found]           ` <200304282258310030.00DED562@smtp.comcast.net>
2003-04-29  2:58             ` rmoser
2003-04-25 22:32 rmoser
2003-04-28 21:35 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-29  0:43   ` Con Kolivas
     [not found] <200304251640110420.0069172B@smtp.comcast.net>
2003-04-25 20:48 ` rmoser
2003-04-25 21:14   ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-25 21:17   ` John Bradford

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