Is there a way to use the video card memory by the system?

Question

Iron

Actually, there is a computer with 512 MB of RAM and a video card with 1 GB of RAM on board (crazy configuration, but that's a given). Of course, the swap file is bursting at the seams; I want to use the memory of the video card, but a long googling did not bring any results - I don’t know if this is possible in principle. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

It’s impossible humanly, and there’s no point in it, video memory has a terribly high latency and terribly low performance with random access, there won’t be much sense in the general case.

Answer 2

There is a different architecture, and the OS has not yet learned how to use video power.

Answer 3

Yes, and in Linux, not everything is so trivial with this.
In general, if you ask such a question, it’s better to splurge on the bar.

Answer 4

In Linux it is possible.

Answer 5

There is another problem with video memory - it may not be reliable enough, often manufacturers put half-broken memory chips - you won't see a broken pixel in the picture, but for a program it can be fatal.