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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #725434
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 725434

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: nvidia-current causes a significant 'across the board' memory use increase

 >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 +