Comment 13 for bug 98783

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rfehren (rf) wrote : [Bug 98783] Re: MASTER: memory leak

>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> writes:

    Bryce> Comment #11 is a good summary of the situation. Currently,
    Bryce> none of the comments on this bug provide sufficient
    Bryce> information to do troubleshooting. Memory usage problems
    Bryce> tend to be very hard to debug, especially when they cannot
    Bryce> be reproduced independently.

Sure, I'm aware of that.

    Bryce> For people using the -nvidia driver, you're almost entirely
    Bryce> out of luck - the binary proprietary -nvidia driver
    Bryce> replaces pretty large swaths of the xserver's internals
    Bryce> with its own code, so debugging issues with that driver are
    Bryce> almost always futile. If the bug is sufficiently well
    Bryce> reported, it could be forwarded to -nvidia, but so far not
    Bryce> enough has been provided.

What additional information do you require?

Maybe nouveau will be an alternative in 9.04.