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egoshin is offline egoshin
2010-09-17 , 20:03
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Not necessarily. Given how expensive MMC access operations are, gzipping most pages to, let us say, 16MB of RAM may well prove to be faster than pushing the same pages to the MMC.
I run root FS from /home partition - move root FS from UBIFS which is a compressed file system and I see the battery time increase and also - don't see any significant impact on performance.

So, I guess, a compression of swap space may be not a good thing on N900.