Originally Posted by don_falcone (Post 1086681)

Thanks for that bit. Is there a way that busybox' swapon would include swap priorities in a future update? That way we could omit the swapoff/swapon workaround.

EDIT: There's the mount package, supportingly with priority support for swap.

EDIT2: Said mount package has unmet python dependencies on my device. Bummer.

Originally Posted by Seker_94 (Post 1095059)

bumping -_-

i have a single question

Does COMPCACHE effect our n900 or it doesn't?

Originally Posted by knobby (Post 1095178)

pls tell me that why compcache is better than swap memory as in compressing process cpu requires some time and doesn't that make phone operation slow...?

Originally Posted by Mohammad (Post 1095192)

i didn't have any better performance with compcache
but reboots many reboots

@knobby
@seker_94
don't give sh|t about COMPCACHE
if you want extra performance just use speedpatch

Originally Posted by maacruz (Post 1095252)

Question has no meaning. Use compcache if you want, if you don't want to use it, it doesn't affect you.


It is much more complex than that. Compressing a page takes noticeable cpu, but decompressing is very fast. On the other hand, mmc also takes a fair amount of cpu, and it can be very slow or fast depending on the hardware controller, and the pattern of usage (unaligned writes for example). In the N8x0 , the mmc is rather slow, and even having a much slower cpu than the N900, compcache is a very noticeable gain.
Compcache is kernel development, so it is not a trivial thing, and there are still issues to be resolved in the N900. Until they are, the real gain can't be assessed.


This is a thread for the development of compcache for the N900.
Please don't pollute this thread with senseless chatter. That script you refer to isn't a patch and doesn't affect performance in any way.

Originally Posted by Mohammad (Post 1095192)

i didn't have any better performance with compcache
but reboots many reboots

@knobby
@seker_94
don't give sh|t about COMPCACHE
if you want extra performance just use speedpatch

Originally Posted by knobby (Post 1095278)

i agree with u ... but since mmc of n900 is quite large and moreover swapping to mmc is quite fast as compared to other nseries tablets and cpu is also better than them, and whats the idea of introducing compcache...?