Re: [OT] How to tune kernel to swap more often (video ram swap)

[Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>]

05.02.2006 11:04, Paweł Zadrąg wrote/a écrit:
> Yo...
>
> In normal case, using harddisk as a swap space i should ask how to cut
> down swapping, or make swapping when idle, etc... My case is a little
> bit diffrent... I have a 256MB video card, while 240MB of it is used
> as a swap space. And the question is: how to tune kernel to swap more
> often. I known swapped memory must be copied back to ram before beeing
> used, so i'm looking for a reasonable tunning values...
>
> What do You think about that mighty list ?
Actually this list is not about Linux tuning. Please read post only 
about bugs and patches for the linux kernel.

Anyway, I guess what you are looking for is the "swappiness". For more 
info check 
http://www.brunolinux.com/06-Fine_Tuning_Your_System/Swappiness.html

Am I correctly understanding that you are using your video card memory 
as a place to put swap? This sounds quite cool, how have you done this? 
Is there a driver which can report the video ram as a block device?

see you,
Eric
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