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
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