[ILUG] Kernel 2.6.6 256MB RAM & Swappiness tweaks

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jm at jmason.org wrote:
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> Paul Jakma writes:
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>>But any significant pressure will result in swapping, no amount of 
>>cleverness can squeeze more than X amount of RAM out of X amount of 
>>RAM. (except maybe if we had on the fly gzipping of RAM, that could 
>>be fun. especially if you had a CPU that did on-the-fly hardware 
>>compress/decompression of memory ;) )

Hmm that reminds me, wasn't there some scandal with one
of those products where someone writing for DDJ hacked a RET
instruction into the "compress" function and noticed no difference.
Ah: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/windows/win95.update/softram.html

This is also relevant: http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/

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