[linux-mm-cc] Fwd: [Ltsp-developer] Compressed caching improves LTSP memory efficiency

[Nai Xia]

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From: Michael Shigorin <mike at osdn.org.ua>
Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-developer] Compressed caching improves LTSP memory efficiency
To: ltsp-developer at lists.sourceforge.net


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:33:48PM +0800, Nai Xia wrote:
> We have done some testing in LTSP of debian with limited memory and
> analyzed the memory behavior of two popular program -- kpdf & firefox.
> The result shows compcache greatly improves the memory efficiency.

BTW there's a patch for a bit better-grained compression status
-- are you interested? (the results are good, +1)

> And what is most important is that you can install and use compcache
> very easily and feel the significant improvement with you own eyes.

ALT Linux implementation uses compcache (and a few other kernel
goodies) for several months already ;-)

http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/beta/ltsp-server
 ftp://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/beta/ltsp-server

Thank you for nice work!

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 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike at altlinux.ru>
 ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

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