Comment 12 for bug 391628
Revision history for this message
| Luke Plant (spookylukey) wrote Re: Everything gets swapped out after resume from suspend using fglrx drivers | #12 |
© 2004
Canonical Ltd.
•
Terms of use
•
Data privacy
•
Contact Launchpad Support
•
Blog
•
Careers
•
System status
•
73416ba
(Get the code!)
Some more info to diagnose this:
I think it is basically some kind of memory leak. With the fglrx drivers, my system uses up more and more RAM. On this 3 Gb machine, by the end of a 1 or 2 days, I have no free RAM left, and the X server process can often be using well over 1 Gb RAM.
Sometimes the reported behaviour (swapping everything out to disk) can occur even without suspending and resuming.
Having switched back to the open source driver (mainly to get support for multiple monitors or output to projectors), I've had no such problems. I've had my computer on for 5 days, just suspending and resuming overnight, and by RAM has plateaued at something sensible given the number of applications I've got open, with over 1 Gb completely free.
So basically, at the moment with ATI cards you have the choice between:
fglrx: memory leaks, broken suspend, broken support for multiple outputs
open source driver: no OpenGL/3D acceleration.