[lc-devel] Compressed TMPFS

[Jun O. <ok...@di...>]

Hello hackers.

If I am asking a foolish question, forgive me because I
know little about the project.

1. Can I understand the project as a linux version of "RAM Doubler" ?
   ( RAM Doubler is an interesting util for Macintosh in old days. )
   "Compressed Cache" compresses main memory. Not only cache, but whole mem. Right?

2. What I need is, so called "compressed tmpfs", in other words,
   I need a DBLSPACE of MSDOS for RAM disk.
   This project can work for my purpose?

3. Do you have any figure which shows performance improvement of compressing?
   As you must know, there seems to be a trade-off about CPU usage and memory
   efficiency. Compressed Cache really improves the performance? If so,
   how much in what case?

        TIA,
                  --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.