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ramzswap: Compressed RAM based swap device
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Project home: http://compcache.googlecode.com
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This is a RAM based block device which acts as swap disk.
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Pages swapped to this device are compressed and stored in
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memory itself. See project home for use cases, performance
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- Run 'make': this will compile all modules against your kernel.
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- Following kernel modules are created:
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- Following scipts are included
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- use_ramzswap.sh [<disksize(KB)|<memlimit(KB)>] [<backing_swap>]
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This loads all required modules and sets up swap device.
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NOTE: script contains detailed documentation on parameters.
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Unloads all modules and turns off ramzswap swap device.
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- If you get lots of compile errors, make sure you have package for
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kernel source installed. For e.g., on Fedora its 'kernel-devel' package.
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- If (un)use_ramzswap scripts fail to work, refer to wiki:
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http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/CompilingAndUsing
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- Statistics are exported via /proc/ramzswap
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Please consider using Issue Tracker:
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http://code.google.com/p/compcache/issues/list
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for reporting any bugs/feature requests.
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EMail: ngupta at vflare dot org