Went ahead and did an A2 install, reverted xserver to 1.9, installed nvidia-current 260.19.21-0ubuntu2 (only upgrade was to the kernel to get away from the udev - kernel panic that was quite likely with the hardware here. Memory use at login was pretty much normal, both for mesa3d and then with nvidia-current installed
Upgraded unity, compiz,nux and deps, no change Then upgraded all but xserver and nvidia-current, levels at login went up to basically what was shown in logs previously attached for nvidia. So - can pretty much say this is NOT the current xserver ,nvidia-current, unity, compiz , nux and deps that is causing this, at least by themselves. No sense attaching process logs, will attach a free -m set w/ some description, all were from restarts, - (using the machine w/ 3 GB because it was easier to do this on. The difference between steps 2 and 3 was around 400+ packages, if there was any reason to do so could probably narrow down the cause/trigger to a small set of packages,. Note that w/ fresh A3 installs the numbers are a little bit higher, (5% or so ), than what was seen previously in attached logs for logins with nvidia-current, ie. A3 doesn't represent any improvement For the most part have decided to just use nouveau 3d on a 1GB machine, on machines w/ 2GB or more this whole deal is pretty much irrelevant anyway ** Attachment added: "free-m's" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/725434/+attachment/1884444/+files/free-m%27s -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725434 Title: nvidia-current causes a significant 'across the board' memory use increase _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
