Re: Issues with the nvidia driver

From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7_at_osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:42:22 -0400
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On Thursday 19 August 2004 05:19 am, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:19, Mayo Jordanov wrote:
> > First of all, thank you and Nvidia for all the work.
> >
> > I've been using the driver since it has been announced here, and it
> > works great for most of things (dual head X, etc, etc), however, I
> > see some issues with GL.
> >
> > When I run glxgears (or any program that uses GL - glxgears and some
> > of the X screen savers is what I've been testing with) it runs just
> > fine, giving me around 2500fps.
> > As soon as I stop glxgears, and run it again, it will produce about
> > 6fps. In order to get it back up to speed, I have to wait between 10
> > or 20 minutes; after that it runs just fine again. If I quit it, and
> > run again, I get around 3 to 6 fps, wait 10 to 20 mins, and on and
> > on.
Twiddling this sysctl should fix your problem:
vm.old_msync

My friend had the same issue and that solved it.
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Anish Mistry
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