On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> 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?
Yes, there is a priority flag for this. man swapon for all the info.
Jon
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