[OLPC-devel] Re: Announce: Compressed cache 'alpha-002' release

[Rik van Riel]

Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Marcelo isn't currently online due to an accident, but I talked to
>> him on the phone today.  He said he definately wants to use compressed
>> swap on OLPC, so I think it would be good if you could work on
>> stabilizing the current code for use on the OLPC board.
> 
> We've talked on and off about allowing some limited swapping to the 
> flash under emergency circumstances.  But no one has come along with a 
> concrete way to do that yet.

Makes sense, but hopefully with Nitin's code we can just compress
less-used memory and avoid swapping :)

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