Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

[Vladimir Terziev]

	You're right,

	the swap, typically configured, is much more than the amount of the video memory, but in fact the swap is just a reserv, which ensures continuation of the normal operations on the machine, at times of peak loads.
	In our days the amount of RAM placed in the servers is so much, that the swap, in fact, is rarely used at all and a very small amount of it (several MB) is used. In that cases having a very fast swap space in the Video RAM, in addition to the disk swap, would be a good solution.

	Vladimir


On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:33 +0200
Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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