X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

[Ewen Chan]

Felix:

I might be able to try that.

It'll probably be the better part of a week before I will get around to
testing that (only because my analysis script need to load the system
significantly enough in order to trigger this issue).

In regards to your question at the end, someone else who is more
knowledgeable about this stuff than I am will have to take/field that one.

I have no idea.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Ewen

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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