X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

Thanks.

I just tried the blacklisting right now so it will be some time (as I
re-run my tests) to find out whether that worked or not.

Thanks.

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:39:27AM +0300, Hi-Angel wrote:
> > > On 7 December 2017 at 06:05, Ewen Chan <chan.ewen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You know, btw, another silly idea: if blacklisting the driver will
> > help, but you actually care of graphics performance — you could try
> > enabling it back, and then installing modesetting driver, and forcing
> > Xorg to use it through a xorg.conf. Per my understanding the leak
> > could specifically be in Matrox DDX driver — if this is the case, by
> > replacing it with modesetting DDX you'd keep the performance and get
> > rid of leaks. "modesetting" is a vendor-neutral DDX driver which is
> > implemented on top of whatever driver provides OpenGL functional.
> >
> > It should be noted though that if leaks are in the matrox's provision
> > of OpenGL, it won't help.
>
> One possible problem with using modesetting in 1.15.2 is that it was
> recent, and sometimes regarded as experimental.  Nowadays it is
> built as part of the xorg-server (provided the dependencies are
> present), but I've no idea what SuSe did in that old version -
> generally they seem to make it hard for people not using their
> distros to find how they built the source.  So maybe using
> modesetting will fail - I hope not, because on one of my previous
> cheap machines it improved the CPU usage significantly when running
> X, so I now regard the modesetting driver as well worth having.
>
> ĸen
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