X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

he:122 3 Swap: 256170 85 ewen@aes4:~> cat /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure 200 Your help and commentary would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Ewen Chan ___ xorg@lists.x.org:

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

pengaru.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:22:30AM -0500, Ewen Chan wrote: > > Hi-Angel: > > > > > Yes, now it should be using CPU for rendering. > > > > Hmmm...I am not so sure if that was really what I want. > > > > It just reminds m

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

gt; > > On 7 December 2017 at 06:05, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You know, btw, another silly idea: if blacklisting the driver will > > help, but you actually care of graphics performance — you could try > > enabling it back, and then installing

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

Hi-Angel: Thank you for that!!! Two questions: 1) Will the commands from the CentOS distro work with SuSE? 2) Do you think there will be problems using the VESA driver instead of the mgag200 driver? (i.e. the GUI/remote X/VNC would exhibit unexpected behaviours? Thanks. Sincerely, Ewen On

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Thanks. I'll have to try that. (The thread links to another CentOS thread that talks about how. I just wasn't sure if the commands were a 1:1 match.) On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 December 2017 at 06:05, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmai

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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 <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Ewen Chan composed on 2017-12-07 00:32 (UTC-0500): > > > 08:01.0 VGA compatible

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Felix Miata <mrma...@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 thi

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

ded modules. > Have you rebuild initramfs after blacklisting by the way? > > On 7 December 2017 at 08:32, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Stupid question though (again, I'm a grossly underqualified sysadmin). > > > > How can I tell if the

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

I hope somebody else > here can tell it. I don't think it's important for our purposes > though. > > On 7 December 2017 at 18:18, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi-Angel: > > > >> Have you rebuild initramfs after blacklisting by the way? > > &g

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

requests >> XServer to deallocate it. The point is: although this memory accounted >> on part of XServer process — it is actually owned by the app. The link >> also states that you can use `xrestop` application to see the owners >> and amounts of the memory. >>

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

indspring.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Ewen Chan wrote: > > Not really sure. >> Someone suggested that I tried Xvfb but I didn't really know how I can >> use that without using an X server already, and again, in trying to conduct >> my own due diligence

Re: X is consuming ~100 GiB of RAM(!)

I could try that. I will have to do quite a bit of research to figure out how though, but ok. Thank you. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Hi-Angel wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 02:36, Vladimir Dergachev > wrote: > > > > Also, given the the high

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<hiangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 December 2017 at 06:19, Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 December 2017 at 06:05, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi-Angel: > >> > >> Thank you for that!!! > >> > >&

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open source :) That said, I don't know how hard it might > be on SuSe. On Archlinux here we have ᴬᵁᴿ repository, and building > e.g. mesa from source is as easy as a command "yaourt -S mesa-git". > > On 7 December 2017 at 18:36, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.c

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ng is pretty ordinary nowadays. > They are not Gigabytes. > > > Ewen Chan @ 2017-12-05 20:14 rakstīja: > > ewen@aes4:~> date >> Tue Dec 5 05:08:28 EST 2017 >> ewen@aes4:~> ps aux | grep Xorg >> root 2245 7.7 79.0 271100160 104332316 tty7 Ssl+ Nov25 1078:19 >&g

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engineering and/or physics domains.) It's just not feasible nor practical for the analysis software developer to do that. Thanks. Sincerely, Ewen On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 December 2017 at 19:22, Ewen Chan <chan.e...@gmail.com>