On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Esser wrote:
Vladimir Terziev schrieb:
You're right,
the swap, typically configured, is much more than the amount of
the video memory, but in fact the swap is just a reserv, which
ensures continuation of the normal operations on the machine, at
times of peak loads.
In our days the amount of RAM placed in the servers is so much,
that the swap, in fact, is rarely used at all and a very small
amount of it (several MB) is used. In that cases having a very
fast swap space in the Video RAM, in addition to the disk swap,
would be a good solution.
If you have a video card with so much excess memory, that you can
use it
for swap, then I wonder whether the video card has not been much too
expensive ;-)
How about spending $25 for another Gigabyte of RAM (real RAM, not
SWAP)
instead?
I'm not commenting on if this is a good idea or not either way, but
at least one vendor of servers that we've been buying from is now
including 128 or 256MB of video ram(not UMA, real video ram) embedded
on the motherboard now.
I thought it was odd too, until I asked our sales rep. The 8MB ATI
chipset they used to use would have disqualified them from being
"Vista Capable".
So, whether we want it or not, we're getting at least 128MB of video
memory on our servers now. I'd thought about trying to use it for
something, but decided it wasn't worth the effort. :)
-- Kevin
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