Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Sun Oct 14 03:31:14 PDT 2007


Hi,

Achim Patzner wrote:
> 
> Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Lots. Maybe you're just not old enough but some people can still remember
> TIGA. You could even use them as separate processor...
> 
do you talk about the SPEA fire?

Those days, it was even possible to talk to the CEO of a company.

Erich



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