desktop-packages team mailing list archive

[ernsty <tenor79@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am also experiencing this issue, running Vivid on an amd64, using the
nvidia 340.76 drivers which are not as recent as the 346 drivers but are
the recommended drivers for my card:

~$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:03:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000400sv00001682sd00002280bc03sc00i00
manual_install: True
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : G84 [GeForce 8600 GTS]
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-304 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
driver   : nvidia-304-updates - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-340-updates - distro non-free

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop
Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409110

Title:
  nvidia binary driver leaks vram like crazy

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using the nvidia-smi tool, you can see how much VRAM the binary driver
  is using for the card. However, with the current latest driver in
  Ubuntu 14.10, the results aren't good. Just using desktop apps (no
  OpenGL apart from what Unity and Chrome naturally use), and the driver
  has consumed over a GB of VRAM:

  graeme@galvatron:~⟫ sudo nvidia-smi 
  [sudo] password for graeme: 
  Fri Jan  9 11:58:06 2015       
  +------------------------------------------------------+                       
  | NVIDIA-SMI 331.38     Driver Version: 331.38         |                       
  |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
  | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
  | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
  |===============================+======================+======================|
  |   0  GeForce GTX 570     Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
  | 40%   43C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |   1047MiB /  1279MiB |     N/A      Default |
  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                 
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
  |  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
  |=============================================================================|
  |    0            Not Supported                                               |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  However, you can tell that this is caused by some sort of driver leak,
  since if you jump to the fb console with ctl-alt-f1, and then alt-tab
  back to X, the VRAM usage drops dramatically:

  graeme@galvatron:~⟫ sudo nvidia-smi 
  Fri Jan  9 11:58:27 2015       
  +------------------------------------------------------+                       
  | NVIDIA-SMI 331.38     Driver Version: 331.38         |                       
  |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
  | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
  | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
  |===============================+======================+======================|
  |   0  GeForce GTX 570     Off  | 0000:01:00.0     N/A |                  N/A |
  | 40%   45C  N/A     N/A /  N/A |    483MiB /  1279MiB |     N/A      Default |
  +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                 
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
  |  GPU       PID  Process name                                     Usage      |
  |=============================================================================|
  |    0            Not Supported                                               |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  
  The upshot of this is that, right now, I have to dump to the fb console and back before using any OpenGL apps, or they often fail with OpenGL memory allocation errors.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: nvidia-331 331.38-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Jan  9 12:01:56 2015
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.nvidia.331.hybrid.conf: [deleted]

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1409110/+subscriptions