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On Friday 28 December 2001 06:39 am, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My system with KDE 2.2 on Debian unstable is demonstrating some quite
> > irritating behaviour:
> >
> > It works very well except that periodically, about after two hours of use
> > or so, it suddenly starts crunching the disk as if swapping heavily.
> >
> > In about a minute or two every UI process is suffocated and for example
> > the KDE clock, mouse pointer, text mode console and SSH daemon (even on
> > nice level -19!) stop responding completely.
> >
> > This goes on about 5-10 minutes after which everything either comes back
> > to normal or (sometimes) a few processes (like desktop, konqueror or
> > kwin) have died of insufficient memory. I guess kernel runs out of swap
> > space and then gives up.
> >
> > TOP doesn't show any process hogging memory once the hard disk starts to
> > roll. Possibly a kernel incompatibility with some part of KDE?
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on how to start debugging this?
>
> I have the same problem. (Except my card is a viper 770) There is some
> kind of bad interaction between the nvidia drivers, the X server and
> Qt/KDE. If you run top(1) you'll see the XFree86 is progressively using
> more and more memory. Eventually all available memory is consumed and the
> system freezes.
>
> The good news is KDE 3.0 (or perhaps Qt3) does seem to fix the problem.
> Of course it is not debianized yet which is why for the moment I'm back to
> 2.2.2. My temporary strategy is to run the cpuload applet and when
> memeory seems to be getting scarce, logout and kill the X server from KDM.
> That frees up the leaked memory.
I too am running KDE 2.2.2 and a Viper 770. I haven't seen this problem.
Are you both running the latest Nvidia kernel modules? (version 1.0.2314)
That may be the cause. XFree86 version 4.1.0-11 as well.
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