Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 14 02:24:28 PDT 2007


Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет:
> Arne Schwabe <schwabe at uni-paderborn.de> writes:
>> VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a
>> bit flips in video ram.
> 
> That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not today.

Have the anybody ever seen ECC video RAM? Video RAM usually works on 
higher frequencies then main RAM and IMHO it must affect stability. For 
video RAM some percent of errors is really less important, I have seen 
it myself with my previous video card until it died completely.

-- 
Alexander Motin


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