Disk cache—miss ratio analysis and design considerations
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Application-controlled physical memory using external page-cache management
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Automatic compiler-inserted I/O prefetching for out-of-core applications
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Resource management issues for shared-memory multiprocessors
Resource management issues for shared-memory multiprocessors
An analytical model for software-only main memory compression
WMPI '04 Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Memory performance issues: in conjunction with the 31st international symposium on computer architecture
Adaptive main memory compression
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Unmodified device driver reuse and improved system dependability via virtual machines
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
Improving disk bandwidth-bound applications through main memory compression
MEDEA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture
Compressed swapping for NAND flash memory based embedded systems
SAMOS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded Computer Systems: architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
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The performance of large applications tends to be poor due to the high overhead added by the swapping mechanism. The same problem may be found in highly-loaded multi-programmed systems where many of the running applications have to use the swap space in order to be able to execute at the same time. Furthermore, those large applications might not be able to run on laptop or home computers as their resources are usually smaller than the ones found in an office system. In this paper, we present a solution to both problems that we have implemented in the Linux kernel. The idea consists of compressing the swapped pages and keeping them in a swap cache whenever possible. We have tested this new mechanism with a set of real applications obtaining a significant performance improvement.