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? Regards, STefan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
