• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    2 days ago

    Gpu vram is so scarce and precious. Why spend it on something as common as swap space? I skied the github and it mentions latency benefits over swapping to ssd… but still

    • lengau@midwest.social
      5·
      2 days ago

      GPU VRAM is so scarce and precious.

      That really depends. I have plenty of times when my GPU’s memory is sitting there mostly unused, because I need less than a gig for my desktop, but I have 16 gigs of it for gaming. Those times also correlate with when I really want more general RAM because I’m building some large rust projects with LTO. So this is a great way to put that extra hardware to use. I can always turn off that swap later when I want to play a game.