From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] How to tune kernel to swap more often (video ram swap)
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:17:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060205111752.GA4636@irc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E5DD0A.3030009@tremplin-utc.net>
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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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Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-05 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-05 10:04 How to tune kernel to swap more often (video ram swap) Paweł Zadrąg
2006-02-05 11:04 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-05 11:10 ` [OT] " Eric Piel
2006-02-05 11:17 ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2006-02-06 7:52 ` Helge Hafting
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