Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:33 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Vladimir Terziev <vlady@gbservices.biz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD Message-ID: <470F9175.3020002@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20071012170341.72b8b888.vlady@gbservices.biz> References: <20071012170341.72b8b888.vlady@gbservices.biz>
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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
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