Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

Arne Schwabe schwabe at uni-paderborn.de
Fri Oct 12 11:01:54 PDT 2007


Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> 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.
VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a
bit flips in video ram.

Arne


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