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Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

Developer Sean Lobjoit has released nbd-vram, a tool that lets Linux users—especially laptop owners with soldered, non-upgradable RAM—utilize their NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space. The tool uses the Network Block Device (NBD) protocol and CUDA API to bypass limitations that prevent other approaches from working on consumer GPUs, offering features like auto-adjusting VRAM allocation, power-aware management, and configurable swap priority to use VRAM before zram or SSD.