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  • #11
    You can use glxinfo too, so no popups

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    • #12
      I normally don't use Compiz, but I just gave it a try. Unbelievable fglrx eating memory away like crazy in 8 MB chunks! And indeed a simple glxinfo releases the memory. I'm sure this is fglrx at fault and not X. top nor xrestop show a user process growing in memory usage. cat /proc/slabinfo seems to indicate a lot of kmalloc-8192 objects being allocated (and released when running glxinfo).

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      • #13
        And I?m pretty sure it is not fglrx fault, I have found people with nvidia reporting the same problem... this is my script which I run after login

        Code:
        #!/bin/sh -e
        
        sleep 30
        
        alltray evolution --no-alltray &
        gnome-do & 
        pidgin &
        pino &
        
        while [ 1 ]
        do
        	glxinfo	
        	sleep 60
        done
        
        return 0

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        • #14
          I'll give it a try later with the OSS radeon and R600 dri driver.

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          • #15
            Well, I'm using the OSS drivers with Compiz now (radeon ddx + r600 dri) and they don't exhibit this behavior at all.

            So I stand by my comment: The problem lies with fglrx. Technically this may not be a memory leak or even a bug though, because the memory does seem to get released even without glxinfo after a while (at least here it did after some quick testing). Nevertheless taking away a couple of hundred MB of RAM like that is IMO very anti-social behavior.

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