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This is interesting. However, considering how 4GB to 8GB RAM is getting so common nowadays, using a ramdisk e.g. a tmpfs partition is quite useful. I've set Firefox and Google Chrome to use a 1 GB tmpfs partition for their cache and the performance improvement is clearly visible.
Why use a disk cache on a ramdisk instead of using the memory cache of the browsers? Is it to survive browser restarts?
GPUfs: Integrating a File System with GPUs. Mark Silberstein (UT Austin), Bryan Ford (Yale University), Idit Keidar (Technion), Emmett Witchel (UT Austin)
Paper: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/papers/asplos13-gpufs.pdf
Slides: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2010/det/papers/asplos13-gpufs-slid...
Is that called shared GPU memory? Can it be adjusted in WinNT/Linux? Some recent console game ports need/want 3+ GB VRAM. Upgrading VRAM is impossible, RAM is easy and cheap(er).
Is it possible to map RAM as VRAM? Is that called shared GPU memory? Can it be adjusted in WinNT/Linux? Some recent console game ports need/want 3+ GB VRAM. Upgrading VRAM is impossible, RAM is easy and cheap(er).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why use a disk cache on a ramdisk instead of using the memory cache of the browsers? Is it to survive browser restarts?
Do they have the option to only use a large ram cache?
(I had to double check just now since you asked. Yep, still there.)