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

[Christopher Blizzard]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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 :)
> 

Oh, sure, sure.  I was just saying "we're keeping our options open."  :)

--Chris