From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 15:23:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E283F16A468 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253D113C44B; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:23:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <470F9175.3020002@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:33 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vladimir Terziev References: <20071012170341.72b8b888.vlady@gbservices.biz> In-Reply-To: <20071012170341.72b8b888.vlady@gbservices.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:23:37 -0000 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