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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #725434
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 725434

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: something (libcairo2) causes a significant 'across the board' memory use increase with -nvidia loaded

Just to see did go ahead and package/install the current 1.10.2 source without gl enabled, it brought the mem use at log in back to the expected amount. (246 vs 602MB, unity login on this machine, slightly greater diff on the affected p4 1GB

As it stands now, machines w/ 2GB or more doesn't much matter, w/ 1GB can be managed though usage, time online, mem leaks, what gets swapped, ect. will be a factor.
Those w/ less than 1GB should just use nouveau (mesa3d