I have this bug with all distros I have installed, all based on ubuntu 14.04 (standard ubuntu, ubuntu with gnome, kubuntu, xubuntu and linux mint with cinnamon). I use the nvidia driver and I have noticed that all these distros have the same behaviour: xorg and the wm process are both hungry of memory. The only exception is xfce that seems to be less affected (xorg process leaks memory also with xfce, only the wm process is not eating too much ram).
I have also noticed that other distros, not ubuntu based, have similar issues and with different graphic drivers. I suspect that the problem is relevant to some generic linux graphic library and not to a specific graphic driver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272338 Title: Xorg memory leak on trusty Status in fglrx-driver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: After a few hours Xorg process was consuming a GB of RAM, after a day or so it was 2GB, now after 2 days it's over 4GB. I'd rather X wasn't eating all my RAM. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1710 root 20 0 5270636 4.300g 277872 S 14.2 27.6 229:09.97 Xorg ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,scale,workarounds,mousepoll,regex,wall,move,place,vpswitch,resize,unitymtgrabhandles,snap,session,expo,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Jan 24 13:36:48 2014 DistUpgraded: 2014-01-20 08:54:25,315 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21da] InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-29 (573 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MachineType: LENOVO 4287CTO ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-5-generic root=UUID=6088859e-4fc3-4ec8-903f-5b52cdc1d0eb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-20 (4 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET67WW (1.37 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4287CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET67WW(1.37):bd12/05/2012:svnLENOVO:pn4287CTO:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4287CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4287CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.51-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.0.1-1ubuntu2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.0.1-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu11 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.907-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu1 xserver.bootTime: Wed Jan 22 12:54:42 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 728 vendor LGD xserver.version: 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-driver/+bug/1272338/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
