Archive for May 13th, 2009
Memory leak fixed on my sony vaio laptop with an HD3400 series. NOT completely, xorg will still leak over time (about 60mb over 8 hours and I think some of this memory is re-used for effects which will not increase the memory any further when opening, closing, etc). The change is DRASTIC compared to what I was seeing. Before this xorg would leak anywhere between 500-700mb over 4 hours of use.
After a few weeks, a patch has been released a few days ago that fixes the fglrx lag when minimizing, maximizing or opening a window on ubuntu jaunty 9.04. The lag was severe freezing the entire desktop for 1-3 seconds, almost making desktop effects unbearable to use.
For those who would prefer to compile xorg;
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26424345/107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch
PPA is available here;
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/xserver-no-backfill
Launchpad link for this bug;
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/351186
