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

[Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 12:10:02PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 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?

 It's an old trick with MTD devices:
http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html

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