On Wednesday 12 March 2003 17:44, MAL wrote: > Joshua J. Berry wrote: > > > > The only major issue I've had has been some memory leakage in kernel > > space requiring a reboot every few days, but it looks like this issue has > > been largely cleaned up. Just make sure you use agpgart (which is an > > option in the kernel), and not nVidia's AGP interface. > > Why? Is this a documented problem?
It is...there have been people complaining about it on nVidia's forums.
Unfortunately, I can't find any of the links for it. I don't know if nVidia
has responded to this, or if it's a problem in the 4xxx drivers.
>
> I have a GeForce2 MX200 64MB on my work machine, and have been running
> RedHat 7.1 for the last year with it and the nvidia drivers, using their
> AGP interface, and my box has seen month+ uptimes, (and yes I play
> quake3 on it ;)
>
> I ask because I just cleaned my workstation and put Gentoo on it to
> match home, and I have seen the odd frozen desktop already, (3 day old
> install). I figured it was an app I was using, but fill me in....
I've only had major problems when I leave certain screen savers running
overnight. What would happen is, RAM would gradually start to be used up, but
no program would lay claim to it. Even after killing everything off and
dropping to single-user mode, I would still have about 2-300 MB RAM
unaccounted for. As this *only* happened when I was running a GL screensaver,
I figured it had to be the nVidia driver, and sure enough, there was mention
of this in the forums.
I don't believe any official fix/workaround has been found, nor have I seen
any definitive docs on what causes the bug to happen. However, since I
started using agpgart, I haven't had any problems.
>
> Cheers,
> MAL
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