Hi all, Any suggestions with this? My system just crashed again because the Intel driver used up all 16GB of my system memory. Thanks, Adam. On Mon, 9 May 2016 22:06:49 +1000 Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > 11 [1] active objects, 1662976 [1048576] bytes > 435 [16] inactive objects, 655724544 [103989248] bytes > 0 unbound objects, 0 bytes > 28 purgeable objects, 23433216 bytes > 5 pinned mappable objects, 103358464 bytes > 4 fault mappable objects, 55271424 bytes > 2147483648 [268435456] gtt total > > systemd-logind: 801 objects, 7467040768 bytes (1593344 active, 599011328 inactive, 600604672 global, 6698557440 shared, 6850830336 unbound) > systemd-logind: 40 objects, 693960704 bytes (0 active, 89206784 inactive, 89206784 global, 520888320 shared, 599760896 unbound) > ===== > > This seems excessively high, so is there any way to figure out what > it's being used for? > > There must be a leak somewhere, because the system will run fine for a > week, then programs start getting killed by the kernel OOM handler more > and more frequently until I can't load any programs any more (they get > killed during launch) and have to reboot the machine. > > Many thanks, > Adam. > > > _______________________________________________ > Intel-gfx mailing list > Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
