Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:33:35 +0000 From: David <turbolad995@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Compressed RAM disk swap space Message-ID: <509CF81F.7090803@yahoo.co.uk>
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Hi, I have tried something which actually boosts performance: a compressed RAM disk used as swap space. As an end user, I do a lot of testing on PC-BSD and Ubuntu. It was suggested in the PC-BSD forums I put my idea in one of these mailing lists. The compressed RAM disk I tested is called "zRam" and I use it on Ubuntu. It makes a noticeable difference on older computers e.g. 1GB of RAM. Would the same feature work in FreeBSD and PC-BSD? I use PC-BSD. The zRam feature really *does* boost performance. As an end-user, I don't know exactly how it works; I just installed it from the "Software Centre" in Ubuntu and enjoy the performance boost and I have noticed the hard disk is not constantly in use, compared to not using zRam. You can see my original posting in the PC-BSD forums: http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=18557 Hope this idea is considered. :)
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