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

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Mon Oct 11 09:52:58 UTC 2010


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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