Re: Issues with the nvidia driver

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 08:42, Anish Mistry wrote:
> 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.
> - -- 
> Anish Mistry

This did help in that running gl* applications one after another would
work fine, however it gave me lots and lots of coredumps (randomly too).
I ended up cvsupping like suggested, and that helped it completly.

Thanks,
m