X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

Hi-Angel:

Thank you for that!!!

Two questions:

1) Will the commands from the CentOS distro work with SuSE?

2) Do you think there will be problems using the VESA driver instead of the
mgag200 driver? (i.e. the GUI/remote X/VNC would exhibit unexpected
behaviours?

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Ewen

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 December 2017 at 05:45, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6 December 2017 at 15:25, Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that Xorg will show memory usage from mapping graphics
> memory..
> >> which could be large on your card.
> >>
> >> Also, are you using CUDA ?
> >
> > I don't think Matrox provides CUDA functional.
> >
> > @Ewen, by the way, this mail pushed me to another thought the leak
> > could possibly be in userspace driver — Matrox doesn't seem to use
> > Mesa, so I know basically nothing about them. I tried googling a bit,
> > and barely the first link is this
> > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57699 "Xorg Memory Leak
> > with Matrox G200eR2".
> >
> > So yes, it is very well possible the leak not because of XServer, but
> > rather bug in Matrox's driver. In this case upgrading Xorg won't help,
> > you need to get support from Matrox.
>
> …and you can actually check whether it is true by following the same
> steps as the author of the forum post ↑ I.e. by blacklisting the
> driver, and checking if the problem fixed in software rendering.
>
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