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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Compressed RAM/SWAP
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:38:15 +0000 ()
Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199602101037.FAA09522@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Feb 10, 96 05:37:15 am
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> 
> If there are lots of zero'd pages that aren't used that often,
> can't be eliminated, and would benefit from compression wouldn't
> it be better to look at a ZFOD (zero fill on demand) mechanism?
> 
Perhaps using that as a HINT as to which pages might be useful targets
for compression???  Maybe eliminating the wasteful attempted compression.

John Dyson
dyson@freebsd.org