[Spice-devel] lots of what looks like "memory issues" to me but I don't know enough to understand the messages...

[Graeme V]

looks like this reply didn't get tied up with original thread here ===> 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-September/021836.html

On 09/10/15 15:37, Graeme V wrote:
> OK, I created an Xorg.conf , by doing:
>
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> Xorg -configure
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> I edited the file and placed it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The edited 
> section was:
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> Section "Device"
>         ### Available Driver options are:-
>         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
>         ### <percent>: "<f>%"
>         ### [arg]: arg optional
>         #Option     "EnableImageCache"       # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "EnableFallbackCache"     # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "EnableSurfaces"         # [<bool>]
>         Option      "EnableSurfaces"            "False"   # On seems 
> to cause lots of O-O-M issues
>         #Option     "DebugRenderFallbacks"     # [<bool>]
>         #Option     "NumHeads"               # <i>
>         #Option     "SpiceDeferredFPS"       # <i>
>     Identifier  "Card0"
>     Driver      "qxl"
>     BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
> And indeed this seems to remove the errors from the log:
>
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
>
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:48:48 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
> Oct  9 13:49:06 HDSjessie gdm-Xorg-:0[546]: qxl_surface_create: Bad 
> bpp: 1 (1)
>
> These messages are now gone from syslog, In Xorg.o.log I see:
>
> [     1.096] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
> [     1.096] (==) qxl(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> [     1.096] (==) qxl(0): RGB weight 888
> [     1.096] (==) qxl(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> [     1.096] (==) qxl(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> [     1.096] (**) qxl(0): Option "EnableSurfaces" "False"
> [     1.096] (II) qxl(0): Deferred Frames: Disabled
> [     1.096] (II) qxl(0): Offscreen Surfaces: Disabled
> [     1.096] (II) qxl(0): Image Cache: Enabled
> [     1.096] (II) qxl(0): Fallback Cache: Enabled
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): framebuffer at 0x7f1f65d84000 (16384 KB)
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): command ram at 0x7f1f66d84000 (49144 KB)
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): vram at 0x7f1f61d84000 (65536 KB)
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): rom at 0x7f1f6ff74000
> [     1.097] resizing surface0 to 16777216
> [     1.097] memory space from 0x7f1f66d84000 to 0x7f1f69d81000
> [     1.097] memory space from 0x7f1f61d84000 to 0x7f1f65d84000
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Device version 0.0
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Compression level 0, log level 0
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): 12286 io pages at 0x7f1f65d84000
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): RAM header offset: 0x3ffe000
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Correct RAM signature 41525851
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): 49140 KB of video RAM
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): 1024 surfaces
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Output qxl-0 using monitor section Monitor0
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Output qxl-1 has no monitor section
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Output qxl-2 has no monitor section
> [     1.097] (II) qxl(0): Output qxl-3 has no monitor section
>
> I guess my question is:
>
> 1: This was the default setup created by jessie "virtual-manager" 
> ...it had no Xorg.conf (the norm nowadays)
> 2: The SPICE / VNC / QXL display  is limited to 65Mb
> 3: The QXL display driver (in the default setup) seems to use more 
> than 65Mb
>
>
> Just seems that some default is wrong here? If the limit of 65mb is 
> set then why do the options use more than 65Mb
> (I assume it's the QXL driver default?)
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> -- 
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> Graeme
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