On Sul, 2004-01-18 at 01:56, Alex Deucher wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a leak per se... the problem is the 2D and 3D
> driver aren't too good at managing memory.  the 3D driver may snag a
> big chunk for a full screen 3D app and then "keep" it.  It's then no
> longer available for the 2D driver resulting in a bad alloc error.  I
> think Alan H. was working on a new memory management system for
> radeon/r200 for post 4.4.

The linear offscreen manager code is in 4.3.99CVS on the 2D side. The
VIA driver tackles this problem by using the DRI layer to manage the
memory and having the X server also allocate from the same DRI pool



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