Linux tool lets you swap to GPU VRAM, trading speed for capacity
Hacker News·6d·tanelpoder
A new project enables Linux systems to use Nvidia GPU memory as swap space via NBD (Network Block Device), letting developers trade latency for extra RAM when working with resource-constrained setups. It's a practical hack for specific scenarios—offloading excess memory to VRAM is slower than system RAM but cheaper than buying more.
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