GPU VRAM as Linux swap: trading compute for memory overflow
Hacker News·3mo·tanelpoder
A developer published nbd-vram, a tool that lets Linux systems use Nvidia GPU memory as swap space when RAM fills up. It's a clever workaround for memory-constrained machines, though the latency tradeoff means it's best for workloads that can tolerate slower access patterns rather than performance-critical tasks.
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