Eric Anholt wrote: >> Same problem here with libdrm 2.4.5, intel 2.6.2, Xserver 1.6-rc2, >> Mesa 7.3 on >> Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated >> Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03) >> >> Nothing specific needed to reproduce the problem, just use X :) >> As soon as I start a big application such as firefox ou thunderbird, >> my 1GB RAM is entirely used after a couple seconds and the system >> becomes verrrry slow. >> >> Only downgrade intel to 2.6.1 => 200MB used, no problem. > > I think the problem here was the DRI2 tiling fix, which was great for > the 915-class 3D performance regression but bad for 915-class 2D. I've > pushed a fix to master that should help. If it does, I'll try to get a > 2.6.3 out soon. > > commit 5bfd73cd31ba197a62f549cdbad1a1270b571027 > Author: Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net> > Date: Fri Feb 27 19:09:49 2009 -0800 > > Only allocate pixmaps aligned for tiling when requested by DRI2 > GetBuffers. > > This saves massive quantities of memory on pre-965 since the DRI2 tiling > enable caused the minimum size of any pixmap to be 1MB.
Looks good on my i945 (on top of 2.6.2), memory usage seems to be back to normal. Thanks! Brice _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
