Extend your VRAM using RAM, then extend your RAM using Swap.

krige 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Extend your RAM using RAM Doubler!

Then extend your disk space using DoubleSpace/DriveSpace!

	▲	Datagenerator an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Just to be sure install Stacker (from STAC electronics) too

system2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And burn the swap pagesys file to a rewritable DVD to complete the cycle. It will be super fast that way.

If you are doing video models, this is an excellent way to murder your SSD.

Do not put swap on an SSD you care about at all.

	▲	zozbot234 28 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can of course monitor SMART wearout indicators to check whether this is happening. Casual use of swap for non LLM-use is actually fine since "cold" ephemeral data will be swapped out first and that will never get written to; KV cache is mostly fine since it's similarly append-only so writes are tolerably small; but yes, more general LLM inference totally breaks that limited-writes pattern and will wear out/kill your media.
	▲	Insanity 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I was writing it somewhat tongue-in-cheek and not as a serious suggestion. But thanks for adding the disclaimer, that's good advice!
	▲	rvz 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Do not put swap on an SSD you care about at all. This. Many people rediscovering what the purpose of swap files are, but will still find a way to abuse it without knowing that they are actually destroying their SSD.