Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

[Stefan Esser]

Vladimir Terziev schrieb:
> 	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.

If you have a video card with so much excess memory, that you can use it
for swap, then I wonder whether the video card has not been much too
expensive ;-)

How about spending $25 for another Gigabyte of RAM (real RAM, not SWAP)
instead?

Regards, STefan