[Intel-gfx] Memory leak?

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:39:16 +0100, Damnshock <damnshock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Yesterday I noticed that something is eating up a lot of memory and it
> seems to be my Intel card: whenever I turn off desktop effects on kwin
> I get almost 1Gb of memory freed. Is this normal? Might it be kwin's
> fault?

kwin is a known hog. We have one bug reporter who uses it to test
allocation failure handling.

> Could you please point me where I could debug this like checking info
> on /proc or something like that?

watch cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_gem_objects
xrestop might also be interesting.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre