In my 'wandering' through the various linux 'base' versions looking for a stable one for my qtpuppy I have come across comments and intents to convert across.
The primary reasons seem to relate to resident memory use shrinkage of about 15%.
One that gave some test figures were talking about using 106Meg ILO of 127Meg so I wonder if puppy should also consider it!
ldetect using libkmod ILO libmodprobe?
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there is a better option really - I can't keep up with the name changes, but I think it is currently zram (which is a bad name since it is also the name of a RAM technology that only uses 1 transistor per bit)... its basically compressed swap ... and a great option for a tmpfs (new versions may even support xz for additional compression ... the gzip compression isn't a good speed vs compression ration tradeoff, but xz is pretty comparable)
... however I think it would be interesting to look into completely replacing memmap/memcpy with an lzop/Blosc equivalent since they are often faster than memmap and you would automagically get compression, but I'm not sure what the pitfalls might be.
Blosc is on github
... however I think it would be interesting to look into completely replacing memmap/memcpy with an lzop/Blosc equivalent since they are often faster than memmap and you would automagically get compression, but I'm not sure what the pitfalls might be.
Blosc is on github
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