x11-drivers/ati-drivers-14.12 seems to cause X to leak memory every few minutes until OOM-killer kills X. On a system that has 16GB RAM and 8GB of swap it takes about a day to fill up the memory. This does not occur with ati-drivers-14.4_p1. The system has an AMD Cayman XT [Radeon HD 6970] with three monitors of differing resolution. Upgrading xorg-server to 1.16.3-r1 did not help. Reproducible: Always
#emerge --info Portage 2.2.14 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.18.5-gentoo-krios x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.18.5-gentoo-krios-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-9370_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16381164 total, 11239392 free KiB Swap: 8388600 total, 8335380 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.18.2-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r4, 1.11.6-r1, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.4 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 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FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/multimedia /var/lib/layman/seden /var/lib/layman/steam /var/lib/layman/bitcoin /var/lib/layman/virtualization /var/lib/layman/qemu-init /usr/portage/local/beau" USE="32bit 3dnow 3dnowext X X509 a52 aac aacplus acl acpi aio alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb ao apache2 armadillo audiofile automount autotrace avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bittorrent bluetooth bmp branding bt bzip2 c++0x cairo caps cdda cddax cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr celt cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus declarative desktopglobe dirac djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvdrw ebook emboss encode exceptions exif faac faad fam fame festival ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx freetts fuse g726 g729 gd gdbm geoip ggi gif git glitz glx gmp gnutls gnutlst google-gadgets gpg gphoto2 gpm gs gsm gstreamer gtk handbook haptic hardened hdf5 hdri hpn htmlhandbook iconv id3tag ieee1394 ilbc imagemagick imlib iproute2 ipv6 iscsi jack jackmidi java javascript jbig jit joystick jpeg jpeg2k json kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos kig-scripting kipi kpathsea ladspa lame lapack lash lasi lastfm latex lcms 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upower usb utempter uuid v4l2 vaapi vala vcd vcdinfo vcdx vdpau video vorbis vpx wavpack webkit wicd wifi wma-fixed wmf wxwidgets x264 xa xattr xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xls xml xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zeroconf zip zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="maestro3 ymfpci aica asihpi darla20 darla24 echo3g emi26 emu1212 emu1616 emu1820 gina20 gina24 hdsp hdspm indigo indigoio korg1212 layla20 layla24 mia mixart mona msnd-pinnacle pcxhr usb-usx2y vx222 wavefront" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" 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I can confirm this on my setup. It looks like it's only ati-drivers based since changing xorg or gkernel doesn't help much. Googling for solution does not yield results
Confirmed as well. After tracking down the leak, I've kept the xorg-server-1.15/ati-drivers-14.9 combo, which worked pretty well. Just recently after xorg-server-1.16 hit the stable x86_64 tree I gave it another shot, but the leak is still there in ati-drivers-14.12-r3.
I've inserted ticket to AMD forum for this. http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=488&threadid=184490
I'm seeing no issue with ati-drivers-14.12-r3 with xorg-server-1.16.4-r2. Try to confirm with said packages.
Can confirm this bug with ati-drivers-14.12-r3 and xorg-server-1.16.4-r2.
Confirmed with ati-drivers-14.12-r3 and xorg-server-1.16.4 .
Still present with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-15.1 and x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.4. I'll switch to the open source driver for now, since the upcoming AMDGPU driver won't support my aging HD6950 anyway (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=No-Catalyst-15.4-Beta-Linux). Hopefully the power saving features of the open source driver have significantly improved in the meantime.
ati-drivers is dead, and will not be supported for X.
