How would I communicate this? Somebody on XFree86 working with or have contact with the appropriate people in kernel/agpgart development?
thanks, -pat On Friday 07 February 2003 02:47 pm, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: > If this is in fact happening it seems to point to a problem in agpgart. > X is just a user-space client of agpgart so when X is killed the agpgart > driver should get a close() from the filehandle and therefore free all the > resources allocated to that client. Just as the kernel frees up whatever > you forget to free() after a malloc() when you exit. > > -Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > From: patrick charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: repeated X restarts with i810 not freeing sys resources? > > > I'm running XFree86-4.2.99.901 on a 2.4.20-2.34 kernel on a Dell GX60 with > intel extreme graphics (i810 driver). > > If I repeatedly kill and restart X, the system eventually slows to a crawl > before hanging. > > Here's what seems to be going on... > > If I run top on the machine and observe the amount of memory in use, it > appears that each time I kill and restart X, an additional ~16MB of RAM is > consumed. > This particular system has 128MB RAM, so the system lock up seems to > correspond to the consumption of all physical RAM. > (kernel + base system + ~16MB fb x 15 restarts = ~128MB RAM). > > Apparently, after many restarts, the X server eventually tries to grab a > block of RAM to serve as the video buffer, and gets a chunk of swap. > When that happens, the system is hosed, presumably because disk swap is > orders of magnitude too slow for video operations. > > I'm guessing, but this seems to be what's going on. This is consistent with > the fact that I don't see any daemons or system processes consuming any > significant amounts of memory yet top eventually shows all physical RAM > consumed. > Consistent with the approximate number of restarts, and consistent with the > fact that the integrated i810 design uses system RAM for the framebuffer > contents. > > Is it possible that the kernel, drm or X isn't freeing the framebuffer RAM > after each restart or kill of X? > > Since my last email, I've tried a newer version of the kernel and X, and > still see the same behavior with > 2.4.20-2.34 and XFree86-4.2.99.9. System is running RH8 with rawhide > binaries. > > Appreciate any suggestions or comments anyone has. > > thanks, > -pat > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
