Memory Leaking from recent updates

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On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:40, Gene Smith wrote:
> Andy Green wrote, On 04/04/2004 03:27 AM:
> > Unfortunately with this machine, Inspiron 5150 with nVidia, currently
> > running the vesa Xorg driver, I cannot transition to runlevel 3 and see
> > which side of X the problem is on, as the machine locks solid when
> > attempting to return to text video mode, by killing X or by Ctrl-Alt-F1,
> > etc.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing leaking or has any ideas?
> >
> > - -Andy
>
> This comment caught my attention. My system locks up to where I have to
> telnet in and "killall -9 X" to do anything. It then resets back to the
> fedora login screen. If I try to ctrl-atl-Fx to a console the whole OS
> locks up and crashes. This occurs after usually a long time of running
> kde or gnome. I thought maybe I needed to do a clean install of FC2T2
> since I have just been doing yum upgrade since doing a clean install of
> FC2T1 a few weeks ago. I am using the default nVidia drivers and have
> not done anything yet to purposely enable the selinux stuff.
>
> Also, I occasionally see KDE pause for maybe 15 seconds and become
> totally unresponsive to input almost like a permanent lockup (except the
> mouse cursor moves), but then it frees up. The system does not seem to
> be particularly busy otherwise. That happened while I was typing this
> message.
> -gene

The problem for me seems to worsen if I use the AGPGART.  I've seen this 
problem off and on with Linux for a few years now.  I still have the same 
hardware, just different kernels and nvidia drivers.  I can play OpenGL games 
all day long.  I only seem to lockup (99% CPU by X) on the desktop.

Byte