The current cache can get very large. For example I have 9 GB, this data is highly compressible, I can reduce the size by around 70% using transparent Xpress16K with the windows compress utility. I have not done any extensive testing in regards of speed but generally, at least on HDDs, the reduction of required bandwidth results in a performance increase regardless of the slight cpu load of decompressing.
Could this or similar compression be used in VaM itself? Either way the current cache system seems inefficient.
Could this or similar compression be used in VaM itself? Either way the current cache system seems inefficient.