X server growing with out bound

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Mon Mar 10 09:43:53 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Douglas K. Rand
<rand at meridian-enviro.com> wrote:
> 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.

Can you report this on http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/ in the FreeBSD section?

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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