Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 31/12/2024 02:04, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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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.
I periodically close my windows and start again.

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The other reason is that Nvidia had stopped supporting my card, and nouveau was not up to the task. I changed to AMD video.
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The older machine I used for a time for guests. Works fine, its power is fine, and is over 10 year old.

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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
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