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Posted by tanelpoder 20 hours ago

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux(github.com)
430 points | 110 commentspage 3
UnfitFootprint 18 hours ago|
No software benchmarks? BAR for RAM is cool but I want to see how much it _actually_ beats pcie nvme
hardwaresofton 19 hours ago||
You want to waste VRAM, in this economy?
kevin_thibedeau 18 hours ago|
It's 1GiB. What could it cost, $10?
hardwaresofton 18 hours ago|||
can't stand the thought of people not understanding the above reply[0]

[0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-one-banana-michael-what-c...

theandrewbailey 8 hours ago|||
I wish it cost $10.

(Kinda goes against the original spirit of the reference)

steeve 12 hours ago||
sidenote: it is possible to use Vulkan to map GPU memory to CPU space and even map it back to CUDA: https://x.com/steeve/status/2055042304344231978?s=20
mrwizrd 11 hours ago||
I have long wished it was possible to do this. What a great bit of code. Thanks.
jcmfernandes 19 hours ago||
Q: Why? A: Why not?
bobsmooth 18 hours ago||
RAM disks have always fascinated me. In a different timeline every PC has a 100gb of RAM and 50TB HDDs are the norm.
pixl97 18 hours ago||
Back when HDDs were all there was ramdisks were interesting, but SSDs pretty much killed most of that as they have massively increased IOPS over disks.

Hard drives that huge scare me as it would take days to backup all the data off them.

bobsmooth 17 hours ago||
In my fantasy RAM was the predominate technology over flash.
freedomben 4 hours ago||
Having 128 GB in my desktop, I can never, ever go back. It truly unlocks a whole different computing experience. I've only had one OOM in the last 5 years and it was in my own code where I had a bad memory leak. It's the only way to live
effnorwood 18 hours ago||
use your car for an anchor on a big boat!
bandrami 15 hours ago||
There's probably somebody in Monaco who does that
SV_BubbleTime 18 hours ago||
I mean, if you aren’t using the car while using the boat and it won’t really damage the car… yes?
oneshtein 14 hours ago||
And when you use your car, then what?
SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago||
Then it doesn’t function as a boat anchor anymore. The point is that only a few people are using their GPU at any time.

The bandwidth is terrible here, but if it wasn’t, this would be a good utilization of resources.

zx8080 13 hours ago||
Nvme ssd weights much less than GPU, and it matters for a laptop.
enthus1ast_ 11 hours ago|
And now, I want HDMI as direct connection hight speed network socket.
voxadam 8 hours ago|
HDMI is largely unidirectional.
enthus1ast_ 6 hours ago||
But it's 48 gbp/s unidirectional.
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