Thread: Compiling custom kernels for P1.1 (with fiasco-gen)
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mdengler is offline mdengler
2011-02-02 , 10:57
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#323
Originally Posted by phedders View Post
The point is that the swap is compressed.
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It's been a huge win for me on other constrained devices even with faster storage.
I just want to echo the great (qualitative) experience I have had with ramzswap on constrained devices. Given it helps with crappy programs / libraries's memory usage, and the lack of disincentives to fix those, it's almost sure to be beneficial for a long time in the future.

Since one is (to oversimplify a tiny bit) trading CPU for RAM, with ~1GHz devices these days only having 256MB of RAM that's usually a win. Even on the OLPC XO-1 with 400MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM it was a win (since the greatest performance optimization is to go from a non-working state to a working state, and yum/rpm are quite memory-hungry at times).

Martin