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compiz package

  1. Bug #151168
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 151168

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Sasa Markovic (saxon-eunet) wrote :

I do apologize for frequent posting, but it looks like Evilspy's solution is *REAL* (kudos to him). It's probably the simplest possible workaround available right now (apart from eliminating compiz entirely). At least, it works for me as well.

ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with NVidia GeForce 6150 GPU:

1) enter your bios settings
2) go to Advanced/Chipset/Frame Buffer Size
3) default is 64M, increase to 256M
4) reboot
5) play with your cube, windows & effects and monitor memory usage of compiz.real

Prior to this modification I managed to exaust 1Gb of memory in 5 minutes just by playing with windows. Now compiz is almost stuck at 37/38Mb and, trust me, I have played with a lot of windows and made dozens of cube rotations.

I have just decreased frame buffer size from 256M to 128M in order to spare some RAM for OS and it looks promising so far: still at 38Mb.

P.S. I don't have a slightest idea what 'frame buffer size' really mean