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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #376092
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 376092

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: [i945] Running Out of Memory with UXA (KMS)

I'm experiencing the same "cache grows" issue with driver 2.7.99 and kernels 2.6.30, but a i915 card. So the problematic code must be common.

It took me some time to figure that was not a kernel issue, but a video driver one. I can confirm caches take about half of my 500 MB of RAM, arent' dropped by issuing "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", and don't decrease even when the system is dying by lack of memory.