Erik, what is the latest status on Compcache? Obviously, this could relieve some of the pressure, but does not remove the need for an OOM strategy (or strategies).<br><br>Jameson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Erik Garrison <<a href="mailto:erik@laptop.org">erik@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> What about using a NAND partition as swap? Has this ever been done?<br>
> Given that partition support is a recent development it seems unlikely.<br>
<br>
</div>There's been discussion on this list about it. I don't think the mtd<br>
driver does any wear-levelling, and the swap usage patterns are<br>
probably murder.<br>
<br>
googling about I landed this paper from an Intel guy -<br>
<a href="http://www.google.com.ar/search?q=linux+swap+mtd+nand" target="_blank">http://www.google.com.ar/search?q=linux+swap+mtd+nand</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_doc.pdf" target="_blank">www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_doc.pdf</a><br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
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