Comment 78 for bug 1072206

Nope. Still happens to me too.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015, 8:50 AM Andrea Azzarone <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Gilles,
>
> looks weird, you are the first one to reconfirm the bug. How can you
> reproduce it? Can you write it all the steps? Thanks.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072206
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> Title:
> [nvidia] Window content is black or transparent
>
> Status in Compiz:
> Fix Released
> Status in Compiz 0.9.11 series:
> Fix Committed
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Invalid
> Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in compiz source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> [ Impact ]
>
> With nVidia hardware from time to time window content is rendered
> black or transparent. The problem manifests more frequently as
> session uptime increases.
>
> Apparently the problem was caused by textures being cached and not
> freed, resulting in memory exhaustion conditions. It turns out the
> texture caching is unnecessary anyway.
>
> [ Test Case ]
>
> Verification requires an nVidia GPU with proprietary drivers. The
> problem can not be reproduced at will, only after some time (depending
> on resident GPU memory and usage) and even then only randomly and
> unreliably.
>
> [ Regression Potential ]
>
> It is unlikely this change has the potential to introduce new
> regressions.
>
> [ Other Info ]
>
> Fix was cherry-picked from the Ubuntu "Vivid Vervet" dev relase where
> it has been in use for some weeks without problem.
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