swapfiles without root

[k]

hi thank you, it's just a quick hack :)

the current big bug is that mem is not copied, rather shared, on fork(),
which means some is likely getting a little corrupt.  [this may or may not
change.]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 11:24 AM coderman <coderman at protonmail.com> wrote:

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> *grin*
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> i remember running full gnuradio toolchain builds on an ARM gumstick.
> gotta pull out all the stops!
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yeah.

did you just use lots of swap?

> somebody with more systems experience than me could probably speed it
> > up and stabilise it without much work....
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> i'll take a look later this week when i have some time. i'm curious
> to add compression to the file backed memory, as flash i/o is horribly
> slow, and compression may result in a net gain despite adding CPU load.
> (new embedded devices have more cores anyway, so this might not be bad)
>

mimalloc intercepts malloc() and free()
the vmem branch opens a file and calls mmap() when a page is needed

if you like this project, after seeing how simple my changes are you might
reimplement them better.

fun stuff, keep it up Karl!
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> best regards, enjoy some nature too :)
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:)

hope you are well !


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