On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:38 +0530, nandha kumar wrote: > hai to all. > I m nandha.... doing second year in saveetha engg college.. > I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd > i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i > m not at all using windows.. > > now i have a doubt about swap area. > > my doubts are > > 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb > and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. > > 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics > ???? if possible please tell me how to do it?? >
Swap space is just space on your hard-drive set up to compensate for when you run out of RAM. Accessing that is as slow as accessing your hard drive, so less swap used is better. I do not think any graphics card currently available can use hard-drive space to augment VRAM, and besides that isn't a very good idea at all. On the Intel 845 board, you should be able to increase the amount of main RAM that is allocated to your on-board graphics in the BIOS. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
