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Tomasz Torcz wrote: >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 > > Nice trick. If you also have swapspace on disk, remember to give the "mtd swap" higher priority in /etc/fstab. That way, disk swapping will only happen when the mtd swap is full. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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