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1config RAMSTER 2 bool "Cross-machine RAM capacity sharing, aka peer-to-peer tmem" 3 depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CONFIGFS_FS=y && !ZCACHE && !XVMALLOC && !HIGHMEM && NET 4 select LZO_COMPRESS 5 select LZO_DECOMPRESS 6 default n 7 help 8 RAMster allows RAM on other machines in a cluster to be utilized 9 dynamically and symmetrically instead of swapping to a local swap 10 disk, thus improving performance on memory-constrained workloads 11 while minimizing total RAM across the cluster. RAMster, like 12 zcache, compresses swap pages into local RAM, but then remotifies 13 the compressed pages to another node in the RAMster cluster.