Bug#591061: libdrm-radeon1: Huge memory leak with Radeon HD 4200 while using KMS.

[Eduardo I.]

Just tried again with kernel 2.6.32-5 and the following packages:

ii  xserver-xorg-v 1:6.13.1-2
ii  libdrm-radeon1 2.4.18-6

And the behaviour when scrolling the previously mentioned webpage was different.

1) When scrolling continously RAM usage (as measured in real time by
gkrellm2, for example) goes up wildly, same as before.
2) A fraction of a second after the scrolling stops RAM usage goes
down noticeably, perhaps even back to baseline.
3) After trying this a dozen times my system completely hanged. I had
to reset it (didn't try magic SysRq).

I forgot to mention that, both now and before, scrolling is slow (but
just on the sites that trigger this issue) and lines get sort of
messed up during it.

This is the example of a page that causes this behaviour:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8991

Thanks!

--
Eduardo.



On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
> reassign 591061 src:xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-2
> thanks
>
> Eduardo I. <perseguidor at gmail.com> (06/08/2010):
>> Hi Cyril, thanks for your answer.
>
> No problem,
>
>> Do you want me to try any other combination of packages?
>
> not yet, reassigning to the driver. Could be it, could be the kernel,
> but I'm told upstream is subscribed to the BTS for that package, so
> they should be able to give us some directions.
>
> For that matter, link to the whole bugreport:
>  http://bugs.debian.org/591061
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
>
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