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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback  when swap slot is freed)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:02:23 +0300
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Nitin Gupta wrote:
> compcache is really not really a swap replacement. Its just another
> swap device that
> compresses data and stores it in memory itself. You can have disk
> based swaps along
> with ramzswap (name of block device).

So once compcache fills up, it will start to age its contents into normal 
swap?


Thanks!

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Al