Re: [lc-devel] My progress thusfar

[Rodrigo S. de C. <rc...@im...>]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:16:20PM -0400, John R Moser wrote:
> Well it's certainly interesting.  I got it to do everything but it
> kinda crashes after decompressing a few pages.  It's annoying.

Well, something seems to be very broken :-)

> I'm not sure now why it's dying, because I've messed with a lot of black 
> magic doing this.  I've changed things I don't understand.  Ah well ^_^;  
> Castro, if you want this patch, wake up and e-mail me.  I probably won't 
> send anything that works right, but it *almost* works.  I'm new at this, 
> and I've done some major hacking.  I'd hope you'd at least look at
> it.

Of course I'd like to look at your patch, send it to the list.

> In its current state it should be able to run more than one alg and
> give stats about it.  If it actually runs. 

You mean, change it on-the-fly, right?

> It runs for about 6 decompresses (you can compress all you want but
> you can't decompress a lot because it blows out fast.  Fix that bug)
> or so.  In the future I want to make each alg register with the
> core, to allow for modular algorithms.

Decompression is all that matters when you are talking about
compression, because it shows if you are handling data
correctly. Probably you store (or read) wrong data when decompressing,
which blows everything. When something like that happens, it's very
likely that the compression alg complains or you get a segfault (in
particular when we decompressed swap data).

Regards,
-- 
Rodrigo