[ale] 1024 GB video memory

[Pat Regan]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:28:59 -0700 (PDT)
Boris Borisov <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I was always wondering why there is no kernel driver that can use
> your video memory for RAM pages in case you don't use it :) Drivers
> like in good old DOS days :)

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Using_Graphics_Card_Memory_as_Swap

It is possible to us video ram as swap space.  I don't think it is as
useful as you'd like it to be, though.  The NVidia card in my laptop
has 1 GB of video ram but it only has a 256MB and a 32MB address space
allocated.  I assume some sort of page flipping happens in the video
driver.

Pat