zram swap on Desktop

[Thibaut Brandscheid]

Talking about speed - what about
'preload<http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/speed-up-your-linux-system.html>'.
Is there a reason why it is not installed by default in Ubuntu, would it
make sense to have it by default?

2012/3/6 Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com>

> I think you are still using the older terminology.  The part that can
> handle dirty pages ( swap ) is now called Frontswap, and it has run into
> some difficulty recently getting merged into the mainline kernel.  Once it
> gets merged, CleanCache/FrontSwap with the zcache backend ( on bare metal,
> tmem backend when running on xen ) should fulfill this role quite nicely
> and should be a good candidate to enable by default.
>
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