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I'm rather new here, so I hope I can give you the information you need
for this.
Ever since I upgraded to 9.10, I've been noticing my Xorg process will
continue to grow in memory. I've seen it get to ~2GB. At that point, I
kill the process, which then gets restarted and it will be at about half
the size of whatever it was at before. I'll need to do this every few
hours while I'm at work.
I've been googling to find a solution and there seem to be lots of posts
that sound similar, but they all end up having a solution that doesn't
work for me. I'm not using compiz, so it's not related to that. I'm
using gnome with an nVidia video card.
Finally, I was able to reproduce it reliably by using the nautilus file
browser. If I click on a folder like /usr/bin, I watch Xorg's memory go
up by 30-60MB. Then if I click on another folder it goes up again. If
I just go back and forth between those two folders, I can watch the
memory continue to grow. I initially thought it might be a cache issue,
but it never goes back down.
When I kill both nautilus and Xorg, then Xorg finally restarts with a
reasonable ~70MB.
I'm not sure which program is at fault, Xorg or nautilus. Has anyone
else noticed this problem?
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nautilus causes memory leak in Xorg?
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/484521
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