Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-07 Thread Michael Butash
So I've been digging into learning more about the virtual memory subsystem of 2.6 kernels, and I found a bunch of interesting info here I figured I'd share that was helpful:

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread Stephen
the RAM back.  I also see fairly large amounts of inactive memory, but I never seem to have problems with the system reclaiming that as needed. Michael Butash wrote: Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64?  I've literally had issues with it that may

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread nadimhoque
-Original Message- From: Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:51:32 To: mich...@butash.net; Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu? i know all nvidia cards have a turbo Cache option to swipe some system memory

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Butash
: Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:51:32 To: mich...@butash.net; Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu? i know all nvidia cards have a turbo Cache option to swipe some system memory for graphics rendering

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread Stephen
Nvidia liked it so much they started just making it a default technology. in the 7xxx series (they had specific turbocache cards in the 6xxx if anyone wants to see on i can bring it to a meeting or take pictures so you may all view the freakshow) On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Michael

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread tshipley
it needs the RAM back.  I also see fairly large amounts of inactive memory, but I never seem to have problems with the system reclaiming that as needed. Michael Butash wrote: Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64?  I've literally had issues

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread Matt Graham
From: Michael Butash mich...@butash.net Meh, I've had too many ati cards die and freak out my systems, which is what drove me to NV. I haven't had one NV die, but obviously comes with other issues... The problem may not be with the nVidia card, but with the Ubuntu kernel itself. Debian and

Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be particularly ubuntu issues back to 7.04 that I first noticed. The only thing really in common system-wise is the hardware, and I somewhat suspect it's

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-05 Thread Stephen
...@butash.net wrote: Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64?  I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be particularly ubuntu issues back to 7.04 that I first noticed.  The only thing really in common system-wise is the hardware, and I somewhat

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be particularly ubuntu issues back to 7.04 that I first noticed. The only thing really in common system-wise is the hardware, and I somewhat suspect it's Nvidia driver related, but nothing really indicates

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-05 Thread Joseph Sinclair
fairly large amounts of inactive memory, but I never seem to have problems with the system reclaiming that as needed. Michael Butash wrote: Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may

Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Butash
of inactive memory, but I never seem to have problems with the system reclaiming that as needed. Michael Butash wrote: Has anyone else seen or experienced persistent memory leaks with ubuntu 32bit or 64? I've literally had issues with it that may or may not be particularly ubuntu issues