Comment 73 for bug 877438
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| Toby Corkindale (tjc-wintrmute) wrote | #73 |
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Have been reminded of this bug, and thought I'd post a follow-up on my own experiences.
I noticed that my desktop would run smoothly at first, then once I had a few windows open, it went slow.
I used the "nvidia-smi" utility to monitor the memory usage on the GPU, and noticed that as I opened more windows, the memory usage would reach 90-95%. Once it reached that level, the desktop became very slow.
If I closed windows until the memory usage dropped before 90%, everything sped up again.
My solution was to purchase another video card. The old one had 256 MB of video RAM, the new one has 1024, and thus I don't reach that troublesome state any more.
People with laptops may not be able to apply this solution.