compcache

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Analyzed over 3 years ago. based on code collected over 11 years ago.

Project Summary

This project creates RAM based block device (named ramzswap) which acts as swap disk. Pages swapped to this disk are compressed and stored in memory itself.

Compressing pages and keeping them in RAM virtually increases its capacity. This allows more applications to fit in given amount of memory.

The usual argument I get is - memory is so cheap so why bother with compression? So I list here some of the use cases. Rest depends on your imagination :)

Embedded Devices: Memory is scarce and adding more memory increases device cost. Also, flash storage suffers from wear-leveling issues, so its useful if we can avoid using them as swap device. Netbooks: Market is now getting flooded with these "lighweight laptops". These are memory constrained but have CPU enough to drive on compressed me

In a Nutshell, compcache...

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has had 243 commits made by 3 contributors
representing 22,977 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a young, but established codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 6 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2009
ending with its most recent commit over 11 years ago

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https://compcache.googlecode.com/hg

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nitingupta

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