Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 12 08:23:37 PDT 2007


Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 	Hi Hackers,
> 
> 	i have found the following very interesting link:
> 
> 	http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_memory_on_video_card_as_swap
> 
> 	It's a howto for Video memory utilization as a swap.
> 
> 	Could someone point me whether the same is possible under FreeBSD ?
> 
> 	Thanks in advance!

It is not.  Apart from the geek factor I doubt this would be useful as 
swap anyway, typically you need much more memory than a video card 
contains.  Maybe as a small ram disk.

Kris


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