On 10/19/07, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there, > > a number of users of ubuntu gutsy with nvidia cards are experiencing a > serious memory leak under compiz. This leak essentially renders compiz > unusable for us. Gutsy ships with a compiz versioned at 0.6.0 > +git20071008 , which I imagine isn't that different from the current > compiz, and with the current 100.14.19 nvidia driver running under a > 2.6.22 kernel. I'm just wondering whether any non-ubuntu users are > seeing this same problem, and whether anyone on this list has > suggestions for tracking down the bug source. At first it seemed that > the bug might be specific to some plugin, but that doesn't seem to be > the case. > > The ubuntu bug report is at : > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-fusion-plugins-main/+bug/151168 > > with at least one duplicate at: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/154210 > > thanks for the help, > > matt >
It's the problem with the nvidia driver. Instead of showing you a black window when it runs out of memory it sticks the texture in the process asking for it and never frees it. This is our latest guess, anyway. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz