Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) | From | Trent Piepho <> | Subject | Re: Vramfs: filesystem driver to utilize extra RAM on VGA devices |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Jonathan Campbell wrote: > one, that today's graphics cards have relatively obscene amounts of RAM on > them even if you're not using it. If you're running it as a server and not > using it for 3D graphics, why not mount the VRAM on the graphics card as a > filesystem and store things there to get some extra space?
How fast is it? For instance, what are your bonnie++ scores for vramfs vs tmpfs vs something on disk?
It seems like you could at the very least put a swap file on it that's faster than one on disk.
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