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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