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  • thejml
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    8 months ago

    I’m specifically talking about the in memory compression, not swap.

    • uis@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      But memory compression works the same way swap works. When memory is needed LRU page is written on disk compressed, and where application needs to read data from compressed page it generates pagefault and OS loads(decompresses) page in memory. That’s it.