zswap – compcache, compressed swap for better performance

2013-11-17 2 min read Linux
First, here is a link to article on compcache. http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/CompilingAndUsingNew zswap is already in the kernel and you can see the documentation in the kernel documentation. Here is the name of the file if you need: /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-$(uname -r)/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt Here is the overview, in case you do not want to install kernel-doc Overview: Zswap is a lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them into a Continue reading