Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoGPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down11
arrow-up1181arrow-down1external-linkGPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technicaarstechnica.comOtter Raft@lemmy.ca to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·12 hours agoJust buy an extra GPU and figure out how to turn it’s VRAM into regular RAM. 😌
minus-squareafk_strats@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 hours agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM
minus-squareklangcola@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 hours agoThe article introduction is gold: In the unlikely case that you have very little RAM and a surplus of video RAM, you can use the latter as swap.
minus-squarecolourlesspony@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·12 hours agoI know you can create a gpu ram disk so you could use it as swap lol.
minus-squarelitchralee@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 hours agoOk, I have to know: how is this done, and what do people use it for?
Just buy an extra GPU and figure out how to turn it’s VRAM into regular RAM. 😌
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM
The article introduction is gold:
I know you can create a gpu ram disk so you could use it as swap lol.
Ok, I have to know: how is this done, and what do people use it for?