The point is to avoid writing to disk entirely by compressing RAM that may otherwise be swapped to disk when remaining RAM is low. See http://thread.gmane.org/

The point is to avoid writing to disk entirely by compressing RAM that may otherwise be swapped to disk when remaining RAM is low. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/91969 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/91969