On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jon M. Taylor wrote:

> > I'm thinking of using video memory as regular memory (When developping my
> > ViRGE driver, I got 24 MB doing nothing...) MAybe a nice KGI feature ?
>       This should not be hard, actually.  Export your unused videomem in
> KGIcon using a kgi_mmio_region, and then 'mkswap' and 'swapon' the /proc
> mapperfile.  IIRC, all you need is a mmap()able file with no holes, which we
> have now.  Note that your filesize must be >= 10 pages for Linux to be able
> to use it as swapspace.

Is it possible to in some way set priority on swap files/partitions, so
this is used before other swap-partitions on disk?

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Ketil Froyn                             The probability of someone
University of Oslo                      watching you is proportional
Norway                                  to the stupidity of your action.

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