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Swap space on Nvidia VRAM, in case you bought a 5090 and now can't afford RAM (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 week ago by felsiq@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember getting puppy linux to work ONLY on RAM. Crazy times we are in when DDR3 is going up in price. I have that in my decade+ old computer.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ran puppy off of a 16GB flash drive on my main rig after a catastrophic HDD failure for like a year before I finally got new parts.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How good/bad was it compared to the HDD?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

It was surprisingly decent for running Firefox & a text editor, which covered probably 80% of my usage at the time, so it worked just good enough for me to procrastinate on fixing things.