[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[Collin Kidder]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>   
>> Swap might be a bit faster than file system access but can't be faster
>> than the maximum throughput of the drive(s).
>>     
>
> Yes, it can.  It's called compression.  Often used in situations where
> one might want to shove a large amount of data over a low bandwidth
> link.  Mainline Linux kernels don't compress swap (yet), but it's
> certainly a feature I'd expect to see sometime.
>
> --tim
>   

Yes, it will probably be included at some point. Compression is CPU 
bound though.