spark-ram-reclaim: open-source scripts recover 4.1 GiB of RAM on NVIDIA DGX Spark
marian_nmt · x · 2026-10-02
The author released the no-frills GitHub repo emjotde/spark-ram-reclaim documenting two tested memory gains on DGX Spark: NVIDIA's 64 KiB kernel to cut page metadata, and returning the 2046 MiB headless display reservation to normal RAM — together adding 4.096 GiB to MemTotal. Includes Makefile, patches, scripts and tests.
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