Thread: [ANNOUNCE] COMPCACHE on kernel-power (now with notifications)
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2011-08-27 , 15:22
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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?
One of the major hardware limitations n900 has is the amount of RAM. Compcache uses part of this RAM to provide swap space which is expected to be twice as big as the RAM used. i.e. for 128MB swap expected usage is about 50-70 MB. so we win about 60 MB of swap which is extremely fast compared to swap on internal flash. So in short this is expected to reduce lagging under memory pressure.
 

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