Bug 6604 - Severe Memory Leakage in X with AMD graphic cards
Summary: Severe Memory Leakage in X with AMD graphic cards
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2012-06-28 07:56 CEST by Chih Wei Yao
Modified: 2012-08-13 07:28 CEST (History)
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Attachments
xsession-errors (185.94 KB, text/x-log)
2012-06-28 07:56 CEST, Chih Wei Yao
Details
Xorg.0.log (36.81 KB, application/octet-stream)
2012-06-29 10:05 CEST, Chih Wei Yao
Details

Description Chih Wei Yao 2012-06-28 07:56:02 CEST
Description of problem:
I got a AMD 6670 with the machine running with Cauldron. After some update, the X eats up the memory as time goes. I had witnessed it ate up 3G of the memory.

Another phenomena is that after the memory usage goes beyond 400MB, then X would use up one of my CPU's core. The CPU would spend the whole core on X doing some I got no idea.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
x11-server 1.12.2


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got a computer with AMD r600+
2. Boot it up with the Cauldron
3. Leave it there for some time, the memory usage would increase.
Comment 1 Chih Wei Yao 2012-06-28 07:56:45 CEST
Created attachment 2501 [details]
xsession-errors
Comment 2 Christiaan Welvaart 2012-06-28 22:41:15 CEST
The file   /var/log/Xorg.0.log   is more relevant for such a problem I think.
Do you have radeon-firmware from non-free installed?

CC: (none) => cjw

Comment 3 Chih Wei Yao 2012-06-29 10:05:54 CEST
Created attachment 2505 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 4 Chih Wei Yao 2012-06-29 10:07:20 CEST
radeon-firmware is installed on my system
Comment 5 Chih Wei Yao 2012-07-05 15:38:24 CEST
Ping? Any other information needed?

This is really bugging me, when X used memory more than 350MB( I just discover the edge), the whole system becomes very slow.
Comment 6 Christiaan Welvaart 2012-07-11 02:34:01 CEST
You could try to use the open source "radeon" driver instead of fglrx.
Comment 7 Chih Wei Yao 2012-07-13 10:06:16 CEST
I got the same result for both driver. So I believe that's not limited to radeon or fglrx.
Comment 8 Chih Wei Yao 2012-08-13 07:28:57 CEST
Seems fixed in the update.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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