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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 -- Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking zdzichu@irc.-nie.spam-.pl in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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