X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

Thanks.

I'll have to try that.

(The thread links to another CentOS thread that talks about how. I just
wasn't sure if the commands were a 1:1 match.)

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Hi-Angel <hiangel999 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 December 2017 at 06:05, Ewen Chan <chan.ewen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi-Angel:
> >
> > Thank you for that!!!
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1) Will the commands from the CentOS distro work with SuSE?
>
> Well, the linked post doesn't show how to blacklist because it was
> created after the fact (author forgot to re-build initramfs). For an
> example of doing that you can refer e.g. this
> https://askubuntu.com/a/110343/266507 Except I am not sure how to
> rebuild initramfs on SuSe — on Archlinux I'm using it is `sudo
> mkinitcpio -p linux`.
>
> > 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?
>
> Nothing that I know of. You'd obviously get a lower graphics
> performance, but otherwise I think it should be fine.
>
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