X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Felix Miata]

Ewen Chan composed on 2017-12-07 00:32 (UTC-0500):

> 08:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA
> G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])                       
 Seeing this thread get so long makes me curious. I'm neither dev nor all that
familiar with the intricacies of Xorg or drivers, but I have had troubling
experience with openSUSE and the mga driver, which you can see by looking at:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004453

I wonder if it would be worth giving

	iomem=relaxed

on cmdline a try?

Reading the bug might provide other clues what to try.

IIRC, most distros have abandoned providing any mga driver. Also I wonder if the
G200eW driver might have support in the server-integrated modesetting driver?
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