Re: [lc-devel] KNOPPIX/coLinux

[Bob A. <cu...@gr...>]

>    1. Is my idea useful?
to some extent. 
in current stage of development you could use compressed swap (even if you don't have any
you can dedicate bit of memory (see below) for swap, as data in swap are compressed 
you'll benefit in having some more swap space. 

why you'll not benefit from compressing cache? 
because your data are already compressed by cloop. 
except if in cloop code buffers are stored in uncompressed form. 

besides this code of compressed cache isn't fully functions (it contains bugs)
ofcourse someone maybe will fix them someday :)

>    2. You know any other solution?
using videoram . it is quite easy to check, and after X windows are started 
_with nozap option_ 
even if you'll benefit by obtaining as little as 4M of ram, yo can use compressed swap
featre form linxcompressed patch, this will make bit more room for your data.
try searching google , there were few people describing how to set it up.


>    3. You know anybody working on same thing for one CD Linux?
i use compressed cache in i.e. 486 laptop with 8M of ram and 
wifi x86 based router (so it switches it disk off)

having swap compressed is generally good idea (i.e it is harder to spoof it,
it is harder to decrypt it too, and anyway disk seek time is larger than compression time