Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 12:38:15 +0000 () From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compressed RAM/SWAP Message-ID: <199602101238.MAA03889@dyson.iquest.net> 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
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