On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > > On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > > > On December 18, 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > > > > > I have no idea whats causing it. > > > > > > > > > > > > you and the rest of the people reporting it. ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > If it helps, I'm using the latest nvidia binary driver > > > > > > > > > > > > define "latest" > > > > > > > > > > Latest beta. > > > > > > > > > > > > While writing this message, its upped to 129MB after switching > > > > > > > some desktops with the pager, and moving the folderview around > > > > > > > a little. > > > > > > > > > > > > can you watch the memory usage as you do these things and try and > > > > > > pin it down to exactly what triggers it? e.g. try moving the > > > > > > folderview and see if that affects things; but ONLY move the > > > > > > folderview. dont switch desktops, give focus to windows, etc. as > > > > > > that will trigger chages in the pager and tasks widget. > > > > > > > > > > > > then try switching desktops with the pager ... swapping widows, > > > > > > etc... > > > > > > > > > > > > having an xrestop running in an always-on-top, on-all-desktops > > > > > > konsole window can make this all a bit easier to do. > > > > > > > > > > > > until we track down *some* culprit, it's pretty difficult to > > > > > > start working towards a fix. > > > > > > > > > > So far as I said, switching desktops and moving a folderview around > > > > > made it grow, but regular use (I mostly use the task bars, and the > > > > > notifier likes to pop up a lot) causes the same growth. > > > > > > > > > > > oh, and does this happen if you use the open source driver? > > > > > > > > > > Don't know, using the opensource driver makes my 8800GTS fairly > > > > > useless. I can test it out for a while.. but seems to me if it was > > > > > a driver leak, it wouldn't show up as owned by plasma, instead it'd > > > > > just make X's virt-mem usage increase. > > > > > > > > Draging windows and switching dekstops cause plasma to allocate a > > > > bunch of pixmaps. I assume its the pager plasmoid? Fresh start and > > > > I'm up to 1193 pixmaps, and 50MB in pixmaps. > > > > > > > > Using both 180.11 and 180.16 nvidia betas. I'll try again with the nv > > > > driver in a bit. > > > > > > Or at least when I see the leak again in the betas.. It can take a > > > while. > > > > Ok, so some news, after running with a fresh svn checkout of kde 4.2, and > > (for sure this time) the 180.16 drivers, plasma is up to 105MB of > > pixmaps. Its slightly strange too, it only started increasing after I > > stopped playing with things trying to get it to allocate more memory. > > > > I've just did a little silly test of recording X memory use in various > > stages of X and kde restart > > > > Virt Res Shr > > Full Dekstop: 629M 318M 9336 > > Loged out: 201M 131M 7728 > > X Restarted: 123M 54M 7504 > > Full Desktop: 496M 195M 7856 > > > > Clearly it looks like X isn't freeing some of the ram, though most of it > > is gone. > > > > I'll be testing with the open source nv driver next to see if it also > > shows leaks quite as badly. > > I've changed to the nv driver now, and first impressions are that its > absolutely useless for a large desktop, regular rendering is slow and > flickery, and it only got worse after I enabled XRender desktop effects. > > One interesting bit, I could see kickoff appear at the top of my screen, > then it moved down to the panel where its supposed to be... Is that normal? > > I think its even slower than the pre-optimized binary nvida binary drivers.
So far with the nv driver, X uses considerably more memory on startup than it does with the nvidia driver. nvidia: 123M 54M 7504 (yes I cloned those numbers from above) nv: 740M 463M 6340 But I haven't seen any leak from plasma after letting it sit for an hour or two, while I did see a leak with the nvidia driver. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@strangesoft.net _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
