2008-03-24 15:11:08

by Nitin Gupta

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Subject: [PATCH 6/6] compcache: Documentation

compcache usage documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail dot com>
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+compcache: Compressed RAM based swap device
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache
+
+* Introduction
+This is a RAM based block device which acts as swap disk.
+Pages swapped to this device are compressed and stored in
+memory itself.
+
+* Usage
+ - modprobe compcache compcache_size_kbytes=<size>
+ (If no size is specified, default size of 25% of RAM is taken).
+ - swapon /dev/ramzswap0
+
+* Notes
+ - Allocator and compcache statistics are exported via /proc interface:
+ - /proc/tlsfinfo
+ - /proc/compcache
+
+
+Nitin Gupta
+(nitingupta910 at gmail dot com)