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Short guide on how to setup and use ramzswap. Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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ramzswap: Compressed RAM based swap device
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Project home: http://compcache.googlecode.com/
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* Introduction
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It creates RAM based block devices which can be used (only) as swap disks.
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Pages swapped to these devices are compressed and stored in memory itself.
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See project home for use cases, performance numbers and a lot more.
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Individual ramzswap devices are configured and initialized using rzscontrol
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userspace utility as shown in examples below. See rzscontrol man page for more
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details.
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* Usage
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Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using ramzswap.
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1) Load Modules:
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modprobe ramzswap num_devices=4
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This creates 4 (uninitialized) devices: /dev/ramzswap{0,1,2,3}
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(num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1)
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2) Initialize:
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Use rzscontrol utility to configure and initialize individual
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ramzswap devices. Example:
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rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --init # uses default value of disksize_kb
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*See rzscontrol man page for more details and examples*
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3) Activate:
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swapon /dev/ramzswap2 # or any other initialized ramzswap device
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4) Stats:
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rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --stats
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5) Deactivate:
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swapoff /dev/ramzswap2
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6) Reset:
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rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap2 --reset
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(This frees all the memory allocated for this device).
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Please report any problems at:
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- Mailing list: linux-mm-cc at laptop dot org
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- Issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/issues/list
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Nitin Gupta
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ngupta@vflare.org
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