nvidia driver=high RAM

Unread post by **hhh** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:26 am

Split from (didn't think about notifications, sorry about that pidsley!)...
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f ... =60#p19018

@baconator, I was wondering if you had tried the nvidia driver and seen the same RAM spike on your geforce 6150. Thanks.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:04 am

hhh, I never use the blob drivers in sid, only in Stable or Ubuntu. But I can make a parallel test later on my big box where I have amd64, pae, non-pae of the same kernel installed, and the aforementioned nvidia chip. Which arch are you interested in, and which kernel? uname -a please :) and nvidia driver version number?

Unread post by **hhh** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:41 am

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$ uname -a
Linux charbroiled 3.13-trunk-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.13-1~exp1 (2014-01-20) i686 GNU/Linux

or the vanilla sid 3.12 kernel. The driver is the 304xx...
https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia- ... 4xx-driver

Don't bother if your not curious about it yourself though. The only reason I ask is because nouveau doesn't quite handle gnome-shell on this box, but it's not worth the RAM spike just to play with gnome and cinnamon.

-edit oh yeah, the card. From lspci...

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00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] (rev a2)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:31 am

Yeah, the card is the same. Well, GNOME or Cinnamon I don't use at all... does the RAM spike happen with no-"mesa"/"no-egl" desktops, too? For example a no-compton Openbox session?

Unread post by **hhh** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:38 am

Yeah, high RAM in every session, though I probably did have compton on. I'll try again with the debian debs and post back...

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:04 am

I think it goes like compton/xcompmgr -> libgl1-mesa-glx -> libglapi-mesa, the latter two don't seem to be involved in a normal openbox session

Unread post by **hhh** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:26 pm

Gaa, I'm not getting the blob to work this time and I hate debugging nvidea, so... never mind! :D

I'm happy that nouveau kicks ass these days, raaar.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:32 am

yeah, get rid of it and go nouveau. Actually it is doing what it says on the box, and even made me forget installing the blob in the last 1 year or more. Actually since I moved to BBQ :D WTF needs nvidia's blob in spectrwm, for example? :)

Unread post by **hhh** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:42 am

Or to echo what Linus says, "Fuck you, Nvidia!"

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 1:52 am

The nice thing with Nvidia and Nouveau is that it shines when it comes to non-OpenGL compositors like compton or in xfwm or Mate. With Intel you have video tearing and the vsync support is bad. :)

Unread post by **hhh** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:32 am

Apparently I need to retract my Linus quote...

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/ ... QDXxxr6ixm
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/d ... 53028.html

Unread post by **franksinistra** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:05 pm

i can confirm that nvidia blob kernel module consumes a helluva lot more ram than nouveau (without nvidia i can boot with only 16mbs of ram in X) but since i've had no standard monitor at my disposal , and i don't have the ability to properly configure edid resolution in nouveau mode

i'll stick with nvidia blob then

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