[compiz] memory leak bug under ubuntu gutsy w/ nvidia

[Matt Price]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:59 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > a number of users of ubuntu gutsy with nvidia cards are experiencing a
> > serious memory leak under compiz.  This leak essentially renders compiz
> > unusable for us.  Gutsy ships with a compiz versioned at 0.6.0
> > +git20071008 , which I imagine isn't that different from the current
> > compiz, and with the current 100.14.19 nvidia driver running under a
> > 2.6.22 kernel.  I'm just wondering whether any non-ubuntu users are
> > seeing this same problem, and whether anyone on this list has
> > suggestions for tracking down the bug source.  At first it seemed that
> > the bug might be specific to some plugin, but that doesn't seem to be
> > the case.
> >
> > The ubuntu bug report is at :
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-fusion-plugins-main/+bug/151168
> >
> > with at least one duplicate at:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/154210
> >
> >   thanks for the help,
> >
> > matt
> >
> 
> It's the problem with the nvidia driver. Instead of showing you a
> black window when it runs out of memory it sticks the texture in the
> process asking for it and never frees it. This is our latest guess,
> anyway.
> 
hey travis, is there a way of getting this bug report back to nvidia?  i
tried to file a bug but somewhat predictably got no response.  

matt


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Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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