On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:06:49PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to track down an annoying bug which is making my system > crash every two weeks, and in between those two weeks I get various > programs, typically Firefox, killed every day or two due to out of > memory errors. > > Apparently all this memory is used by the Intel video driver, which > doesn't leave enough memory on my 16GB system for applications to run. > I'm not sure how to work out why this is the case. Is it a bug in the > Intel driver, not releasing the memory? Is it a buggy program > allocating too much display memory? How can I figure out what's using > up all the memory? > > According to this, it looks like 8GB of memory is in use: > > ===== > $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_gem_objects > 854 objects, 8128716800 bytes > 446 [17] objects, 657387520 [105037824] bytes in gtt 16MiB for each leaked buffer, I guess framebuffers. Could you checck /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_gem_framebuffer ? Which kernel? -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
