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nbd-vram: Use your NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

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Summary

nbd-vram lets you use NVIDIA GPU VRAM as swap space on Linux by allocating VRAM via CUDA and exposing it as a block device over NBD. The design avoids writing a kernel module, using the existing nbd driver to mount /dev/nbdX as swap. The README reports ~1.3 GB/s sequential throughput on a RTX 3070 Laptop and provides install, configuration, and smoke-test steps.

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