Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:17:21 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Vladimir Terziev <vlady@gbservices.biz>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD Message-ID: <470FAC21.7000601@uni-paderborn.de> In-Reply-To: <470F9175.3020002@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071012170341.72b8b888.vlady@gbservices.biz> <470F9175.3020002@FreeBSD.org>
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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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