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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:08:48 +0100
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On 2024-12-31 12:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 31/12/2024 02:04, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>> I imagine that you never closed those programs. Do they have known 
>>> memory leaks?
>>
>> No, but they don't seem to have a proper memory cleaning strategy. 
>> Probably fragmentation.
>>
> Firefox itself doesn't have memory leaks, but its perfectly possible to 
> write crap javaScript that does.

You are right.

> 
> I periodically close my windows and start again.

I noticed a big improvement when I placed swap on an SSD.

I noticed that the hard disk was working hard, guessing that the memory 
chunks were fragmented. A lot of head movement. I guessed that an SSD 
would improve things, and yea, it did, a lot.

Of course, the rest of the system is on SSD as well.

> 
>>>
>>>> The other reason is that Nvidia had stopped supporting my card, and 
>>>> nouveau was not up to the task. I changed to AMD video.
>>>>
>>>> The older machine I used for a time for guests. Works fine, its 
>>>> power is fine, and is over 10 year old.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, Nouveau has full support for NVIDIA GPUs into the 
>>> 8xx range. Anything after that doesn't get full support because the 
>>> firmware is closed. What was the card you were using?
>>
>> MSI N9500GT-MS1G-OC, says the cardbox.
>>
> There is a December 2024 release of drivers for this card.
> 
> https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/drivers/details/237926/
> 
> Driver Version:     550.142
> Release Date:     Tue Dec 17, 2024
> Operating System:     Linux 64-bit
> Language:     English (India)
> File Size:     307.3 MB

Well, too late for this machine. It is now in storage. I used it for 
guests I had, using nouveau, and then it is simply stored.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.