{"id":1222,"date":"2018-10-29T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:20:01","slug":"nasty-nouveau-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Nasty Nouveau problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nouveau.freedesktop.org\/wiki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nouveau driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ksys_xorg_high_memory_use.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ksys_xorg_high_memory_use.png 492w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ksys_xorg_high_memory_use-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High memory use &#8211; X.org with Nouveau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shared memory was taking up all the physical memory and swap space making the system unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Switching to the proprietary driver (or switching to the Intel card) seems to have resolved the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The shared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[138,230,228,225,66,229,227],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-open-source","tag-desktop-linux","tag-graphics","tag-intel","tag-kaos","tag-linux-2","tag-nouveau","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}