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Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression

Posted by Soulskill on from the start-with-my-browser dept.

jones_supa writes: Even though the RTM version of Windows 10 is already out of the door, Microsoft will keep releasing beta builds of the operating system to Windows Insiders. The first one will be build 10525, which introduces some color personalization options, but also interesting improvements to memory management. A new concept is called a compression store, which is an in-memory collection of compressed pages. When memory pressure gets high enough, stale pages will be compressed instead of swapping them out. The compression store will live in the System process's working set. As usual, Microsoft will be receiving comments on the new features via the Feedback app.

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  1. Re:Congratulations, Microsoft! by SoftwareArtist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean Welcome to 1990. Everything old is new again.

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  2. Re:Great by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except swapping to disk

  3. Re:OSX in 2013. by Lothsahn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Awesome! I didn't even know this was in Linux. This would be really useful on my desktop downstairs!

    ...proceeds to Google "zswap linux ubuntu"
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/361320/how-can-i-enable-zswap

    Oh, so it's not enabled by default in my distro?

    According to the kernel documentation, zswap can be enabled by setting zswap.enabled=1 at boot time. Zswap is is still an experimental technology

    Oh, great, it's experimental.

    It has been enabled and disabled at various times throughout release cycles. – Ken Sharp

    Wonderful! If I turn it on, it may suddenly turn itself off when I get a kernel update for 14.04.

    You know, I often hear "Linux already has that", but it doesn't work right, isn't enabled by default on basically all distros, or isn't configured such that 99% of Linux users aren't using it. Saying you have something when it's experimental, not enabled by default, enables and disables with updates, and not easily available to the vast majority of your users is silly.

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  4. Re:OSX in 2013. by Lothsahn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, if ONLY I had been using "One True Scotsman Distro (TM)", I'm sure it'd all work great.

    Fed Troll +1

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