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Compcache is a form of compressed ram swap that should improve performance in some circumstances for memory starved machines. http://code.google.com/p/compcache/

Apparently Ubuntu has had this available for a bit now, and I attempted to enable it, and found this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6609064&postcount=10

What other steps do I have to take to enable compcache on Ubuntu, or is that it?

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According to the Ubuntu wiki entry on Compcache, I think that's it. But in another post in the thread you linked to, a user suggests tweaking the setting. Also, as you can see here, there's a way to set an upper limit to the memory used by a temporary file system.

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I can not verify it is working in any way I know, however yes, I found the settings right in initramfs.conf, and set it to use 20% and lzma compression. Thanks for the answer! If I find out more I will share it here, and if it is truly enabled this is the answer. :) – NightwishFan Oct 10 '10 at 8:14
The compcache page says that it should show up in my list of swaps, it does not. Though the /dev/ramzswap0 file is there I am unable to run sudo swapon with it. I get this error: swapon: /dev/ramzswap0: read swap header failed: Invalid argument I assume I have to run mkswap on it, but that fails as well. mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB – NightwishFan Oct 13 '10 at 6:13
Did some testing, seems like it works even though I am unable to confirm it. – NightwishFan Oct 24 '10 at 20:53
No, the method was right but due to a bug, I am unable to start it without first running: sudo /usr/lib/initramfs-tools/bin/rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap0 --init && sudo swapon -p 100 /dev/ramzswap0. I added this to the rc.local. – NightwishFan Oct 29 '10 at 23:25
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Compcache is deprecated in favor of zRam since Natty. I recommend using zramwap instead, it has an install-a-package setup process and comes with sane defaults that automatically adapt to your system specs.

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