Jason, I saw that article, and found it interesting as well.
But, aren't the EDO simms rather old technology ? And, if you've got an older motherboard that requires EDO memory, then you probably don't have an AGP slot for a fancy video card. You're not likely to find an nvidia PCI card. You probably could find an ATI PCI card with 8 or 16mb of ram, but that doesn't make a great swap device, as it's rather small. So, maybe there is some application for this vram usage in LTSP, but I think it will be really small number of people who can actually take advantage of it. Jim. On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Jason Bechtel wrote: > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
