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3rd November 2009 - Link Blog

Using Graphics Card Memory as Swap (via) Interesting idea: “Graphic cards contain a lot of very fast RAM, typically between 64 and 512 MB. With Linux, it’s possible to use it as swap space, or even as RAM disk.”

Posted 3rd November 2009 at 11:01 am

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