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Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Friday June 12, 2026 @12:35AM (#48499968)
The nbd-vram daemon got a thread pool, ~4x concurrent 4K IOPS, and the swap-pressure freeze is finally gone.

Fresh benchmarks against NVMe included:

https://www.seanlobjoit.com/posts/2026-06-12-vram-swap-two-w...

Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:08AM (#48380139)
Insightful take, looking into these
Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:06AM (#48380130)
Thank you for pointing me to this
Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:05AM (#48380123)
Thanks for sharing this, good read :-)
Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:03AM (#48380111)
This was a consideration when I wrote this
Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:54AM (#48380057)
I am catching up on comments

The reason I wrote this is I run this laptop in hybrid (AMD display + NVIDIA as swap). So all at VRAM was going to waste.

On your question re: switchable swap. It's on my to-do list ;)