>If you uninstall nvidia and go back to nouveau, does the memory go back down to the low levels?
Yes - the 2 mesa3d "1GB" logs attached are reflective of both prior to installing nvidia-current and removing nvidia-current and returning to mesa3d drivers (the "mesa3d_1GB log orig. attached to report itself (On my 1GB machine have returned to mesa3d for the moment and all is well in these regards > Do you happen to know if this is a regression from the previous -nvidia (from the xserver 1.9 days)? I'm fairly sure that use at boot was normal then, though to maintain testing 'integrity', I updated X when it came so can't say 'for sure' If helpful I can install an earlier .iso, revert X if need be and install prior nvidia-current from the archive. (could also try the current nvidia-current if it accepts the 1.9 X, thought I saw mention that it could The other possibility is I'd assume 1 more nvidia-current upgrade, could test that. (latest 270.30 + -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725434 Title: nvidia-current causes a significant 'across the board' memory use increase -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs