Re: Swap maximum size documented ?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

cutaway@bellsouth.net wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>
> To: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com>
> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 15:47
> Subject: Re: Swap maximum size documented ?
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> > > > Does this apply to mmap as well? I have an application which currently
> > > > uses 9TB of data....
> > > >        
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> With this much data, you might consider investigating its compressability.
> If it turned out to be highly compressable, algorithmic changes in how the
> data is handled might considerably lighten the load on MM and disk
> subsystems.  Its almost always cheaper to compress/decompress cached data in
> memory than hit physical media.

The majority of the records are compressed as of about a decade ago.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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