You're all probably avid Slashdot readers like me and have or will soon see this article:
<http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/02/2321211.shtml?tid=137> which links to this article: <http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html> which details how to map your unused video RAM as a usable memory space (MTD = Memory Technology Device) under Linux w/ XFree86. Of course, I immediately thought of the LTSP! I've had several occasions where I had an older machine that only took expensive EDO SIMMS which one had to special order and had an onboard video card that either didn't play well with Linux or didn't have enough VRAM. With this technique, I could avoid having to buy SIMMS for the thing (16MB just isn't enough for LTSP with X) and just buy a higher end graphics card with a bunch of memory and use it as swap! The VRAM swap would be a hell of a lot faster than local hard disk or NFS swapping... It would be almost like adding that RAM directly to the system! In this situation I could also have used the otherwise ignored VRAM associated with the onboard video card as additional swap... The process described could be automated to some degree and reduced to a simple LTSP variable, VRAM_SWAP. :-) Jason ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
