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[Doug McMahon <725434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>If you uninstall nvidia and go back to nouveau, does the memory go
back down to the low levels?

Yes - the 2 mesa3d "1GB" logs attached are reflective of both prior to
installing nvidia-current and removing nvidia-current and returning to
mesa3d drivers  (the "mesa3d_1GB log orig. attached to report itself

(On my 1GB machine have returned to mesa3d for the moment and all is
well in these regards

> Do you happen to know if this is a regression from the previous
-nvidia (from the xserver 1.9 days)?

I'm fairly sure that use at boot was normal then, though to maintain
testing 'integrity', I updated X when it came so can't say 'for sure'

If helpful I can install an earlier .iso, revert X if need be and install prior  nvidia-current from the archive.
(could also try the current nvidia-current if it accepts the 1.9 X,  thought I saw mention that it could

The other possibility is I'd assume 1 more nvidia-current upgrade, could
test that. (latest 270.30 +

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Title:
  nvidia-current causes a significant 'across the board' memory use
  increase