Bug#573912: linux-2.6: please enable ramzswap/compcache

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:36AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:36 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > > Please consider setting CONFIG_RAMZSWAP (a.k.a. compcache), which
> > > enables a ram based compressed swap device. i think it can be
> > > enabled as a module, but i'm not sure.
> > >
> > > This feature is very useful to thin clients, embedded devices, or
> > > other environments with limited ram and no conventional swap device
> > > available.
> > 
> > This is also useful for Debian Live images generated using the
> > live-helper and live-initramfs packages.  Using Sid's live-helper to
> > build an Ubuntu 10.04 live image already results in a 25% ramzswap, so
> > I guess Ubuntu have patched compcache into their default .32 kernel.
> 
> Would you like me to add this to 2.6.32 for squeeze, then?

if it's not too difficult, sure! i had thought it only made it upstream as
recently as 2.6.33.

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