Wesley Moore on Nostr: TIL when you suspend a Linux machine with a discrete GPU it has to stash the GPU ...
TIL when you suspend a Linux machine with a discrete GPU it has to stash the GPU memory in system memory as the dGPU will likely be turned off in the process. My GPU has 12Gb VRAM, which means that if there might need to be quite a lot of system RAM free to suspend successfully.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2362 #Linux
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