Bug 368869

Summary:	Thumbnail Scaling drains my GPU memory
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	hamelg
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	bhush94, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.7.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://youtu.be/5ZAEwjZd4ug
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description hamelg 2016-09-15 20:08:24 UTC

My video hardware is NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT].
I use the nvidia driver 340xx legacy branch (340.96-15)
Sometimes, when I want to watch a video, mplayer or mythtv fail and complain they can't initialize vdpau driver because out of resource. There is no more video memory. To fix that, i restart my desktop session and all works fine again.
I had this bug for 1 year and I have just find out what is trigger this issue.
A quick workaround is to disable the setting "window preview" in the task manager setting, then the GPU memory stays stable and the issue vanishes.
To illustrate my issue, i've recorded a small video here :
https://youtu.be/5ZAEwjZd4ug

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see the video : https://youtu.be/5ZAEwjZd4ug

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2016-09-16 05:31:32 UTC

This is fixed in latest plasma-framework release

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368066 ***