On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:12, MAL wrote: > Joshua J. Berry wrote: > > 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. > > Which screensaver?
It was one of the KDE screensavers, Euphoria I believe.
> I have used almost all of the stock xscreensaver GL
> 'savers, and they always run overnight. I'm eager to try and duplicate
> this prob :)
>
> > 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.
>
> Do you have fast writes enabled? SBA?
> I would use the DRI agpgart, but nvidia's one _is_ faster, (benched).
It is? Hmmm. Could be because it doesn't free its memory. ;)
Seriously, though, I haven't seen those stats...definitely something I should
look into.
Here's my card configuration:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/driver/nvidia/agp >> cat status
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART (inactive)
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/driver/nvidia/agp >> cat host-bridge
Host Bridge: Intel i815
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000104
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/driver/nvidia/agp >> cat card
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Not Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000007:0x1f000104
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/driver/nvidia/cards >> cat 0
Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400
IRQ: 11
Video BIOS: 03.11.01.17.20
Card Type: AGP
>
> Cheers,
> MAL
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