Awesome!  And you are welcome. :)

Gordon VS
gvsche...@cciwireless.ca

On 15-04-23 08:21 PM, santzi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just downgraded kernel 3-16 -> 3.14.39 and I followed GVS's instruction above.
> And after that I installed
> http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-linux-run-installers.zip
> 
> See this Xorg process's memory comsumption:
> 
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  18:53:00 up  1:08,  2 users,  load average: 1,07, 1,01, 1,14
>  total           291664K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  19:02:55 up  1:18,  2 users,  load average: 0,32, 0,33, 0,69
>  total           291664K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  19:06:10 up  1:21,  2 users,  load average: 0,24, 0,39, 0,65
>  total           291664K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  19:26:15 up  1:41,  2 users,  load average: 0,25, 0,30, 0,40
>  total           326224K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  19:35:14 up  1:50,  2 users,  load average: 0,74, 0,51, 0,44
>  total           326224K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  20:03:14 up  2:18,  2 users,  load average: 1,29, 1,13, 0,83
>  total           326224K
> nuhapumppu Desktop # uptime; pmap 1564 | grep total
>  05:06:16 up 11:21,  2 users,  load average: 0,05, 0,05, 0,05
>  total           326224K
> 
> As you see, there is no memory at all. Uptime is over 11 hours.
> This is kernel related issue definitely.
> When huge Xorg memory leak was exist, the memory consumption was several GBs 
> so far (11 hours)
> 
> So kernel 3.14.39 cured my system.
> Need to know which kernel commit(s) fix this memory leak.
> So I don't update kernel to 3.16 until this leak is fixed. I stay 3.14.xx 
> branch.
> 
> Big thanks to GVS!!!
>

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