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

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 08:06:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 11:21 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > 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.
...snip...
> > > 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.
> 
> Indeed, but it seems trivial to backport.  Please test it when 2.6.32-11
> is released.

thanks!

it works, although needs rzscontrol from compcache-tools (in the NEW queue
since december) in order to initialize the ramzswap device.

i had the impression from the documentation that the module could initialize
the device itself with the defaults, but this apparently isn't the case, at
least not with my initial testing, or the version that was backported.

live well,
  vagrant