Thread: [ANNOUNCE] COMPCACHE on kernel-power (now with notifications)
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2011-08-27 , 15:23
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Originally Posted by neboja View Post
ok... i'm kinda idiot for this things, but i googled a little bit, so i saw what compcashe is... but, for what is benefit for us? and is it necessary for me to have it?
With compcache you use part of your RAM memory as if it was a compressed SWAP file.

This way, when you are out of memory, instead of using a swap on disk, you use a swap on memory, that is faster. Even with having to sacrify ram for swap, and even compress the swap, you still gain speed by not having to access to disk.

And I hope this is what it will happen with this patch.
 

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