Hi, I agree with Matt, this problem does not seem to happen with the nvidia/metacity combination. That doesn't mean that it is definitely a compiz problem though - the "black windows" problem with earlier nvidia drivers running out of video memory was only seen with beryl and nvidia.
Chris Matt Price wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:41 +0000, yellowbread wrote: > >> Travis, that's my exactly my point. With the nvidia driver, I was >> seeing the same behavior as described here. While running top, I could >> see the resident memory used by compiz.real rising steadily. Then I >> removed the nvidia driver. Of course compiz.real was no longer one of >> the running processes, but the increase in memory usage overall followed >> the same pattern as before, there was just no particular process to >> attribute it to. So, I either have at least two separate massive memory >> leaks, or neither the nvidia driver nor compiz are responsible for it. >> >> > just fyi, i do *not* see this pattern, and I think most of the original > contributors to the bug also don't. Is the memory just getting lost in > the abyss? is it stashed under Xorg? like i say, i don't see this > behaviour on my currently running nvidia/metacity system (been running > for over a week now). > > matt > > > >> Carl Darby >> >> -- memory leak with ring https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151168 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
