Bug#599769: xorg: the xorg server consumes ram without freeing it whilst using a 3d application

[Macarthur Inbody]

I don't know right now since i thought that the novaue(or how ever you spell
it) drivers did not support 3d properly yet. If they do which im about to
investigate i'll see if i can reproduce it with them.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>wrote:

> tags 599769 + moreinfo upstream
> thanks
>
> On Monday, 11. October 2010 02:09:25 macarthur wrote:
> > Xorg continually uses ram after a 3d application it raises consistently
> > whilst using itself. It starts at 20MB and then as it continually is
> used.
> > It keeps going up until the application is closed. Then it stays there
> > until another 3d application is ran and it goes up once more. The ram is
> > never released whilst the system is on. This bug came about two maybe
> three
> > days ago i believe when there was a few hundred MBs of patches that came
> > down.
> >
> > It never releases said memory no matter how long it's been on after the
> > item came about.
>
> This is probably a problem in the non-free binary drivers from NVIDIA. Or
> can
> you reproduce the problem with a different Xorg driver, too?
>
> You may want to report this problem directly to NVIDIA, following these
> instructions: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
> which includes running the nvidia-bug-report.sh script (which is shipped in
> the Debian package nvidia-glx) on your machine.
> If you do so, please leave a note and URL in this report so that we know
> where
> additional discussion regarding to this problem can be found.
>
>
> Andreas
>
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