I have a 24GB VRAM video card, and the only time I’ve noticed it using over 16GB is when I’m doing LLM stuff. I don’t think that just running under Wayland has ever used much — it’s games that ask for video memory.
Though for LLM stuff, I agree heartily. If I could get a video card with 128GB of VRAM (well, for a not-completely-insane price) I would. You can always use more VRAM there.
The problem is actually kwin-wayland, kwin5 on X11 was very frgual, where both kwin5 and kwin6 on Wayland eat vram for breakfast. Right now my desktop is using 4535MiB, the biggest user being plasmashell itself at 1120MiB
It’s not actually a wayland problem though and If I really wanted I’d of dropped back to X11 when I was still running plasma5 - but Wayland brings more solutions to the table than problems.
According to a quick search I did, there is (was?) an issue causing excessive memory usage by Wayland compositors with Nvidia’s driver; there’s a manual fix listed at my link. Is there any chance that you’re using Nvidia hardware?
Linux on system RAM: I sip
Linux on VRAM post-Wayland: BIG GULPS
I used to be able to run a desktop on less than 1GB VRAM, now with 16GB it fills up starts misbehaving.
I have a 24GB VRAM video card, and the only time I’ve noticed it using over 16GB is when I’m doing LLM stuff. I don’t think that just running under Wayland has ever used much — it’s games that ask for video memory.
Though for LLM stuff, I agree heartily. If I could get a video card with 128GB of VRAM (well, for a not-completely-insane price) I would. You can always use more VRAM there.
But that’s not really due to Wayland.
The problem is actually kwin-wayland, kwin5 on X11 was very frgual, where both kwin5 and kwin6 on Wayland eat vram for breakfast. Right now my desktop is using 4535MiB, the biggest user being plasmashell itself at 1120MiB
It’s not actually a wayland problem though and If I really wanted I’d of dropped back to X11 when I was still running plasma5 - but Wayland brings more solutions to the table than problems.
https://lemmy.today/post/30379016/16636854
According to a quick search I did, there is (was?) an issue causing excessive memory usage by Wayland compositors with Nvidia’s driver; there’s a manual fix listed at my link. Is there any chance that you’re using Nvidia hardware?