X server growing with out bound

Douglas K. Rand rand at meridian-enviro.com
Sat Mar 8 23:53:56 UTC 2008


Replying to my own post ...

** On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:48:03 -0600, Douglas K. Rand <rand at meridian-enviro.com> said:

Doug> I've recently replaced my old workstation running FreeBSD 6.3,
Doug> xorg-server 1.4_4,1 and nvidia-driver 100.14.19 with a new one
Doug> running FreeBSD 7.0, xorg-server 1.4_4,1 and nvidia-driver
Doug> 162.12 and on the new workstation the X server seems to grow
Doug> with out bound, causing me to have to restart the X server every
Doug> few days.

I finally got the time to try downgrading the nvidia-driver from
162.12 to 100.14.19 and everything is back to normal. After 24 hours
the server has only grown to 175 MB, with the 162.12 nvidia-driver it
would have already been near 2 GB.


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