Same problem with Xubuntu 14.04.3. I switched back to the xserver-xorg- video-ati driver to see if it fixes the problem.
This was while I was still using fglrx: $ ps aux | grep /usr/bin/X root 1470 0.7 24.3 4415808 1973744 tty7 Ss+ Sep04 65:07 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ uname -a Linux bmaupi-xubuntu 3.16.0-48-generic #64~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 20 23:03:57 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ uptime 09:41:21 up 5 days, 16:04, 8 users, load average: 0.45, 0.67, 0.71 $ dpkg -s fglrx Package: fglrx Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: restricted/misc Installed-Size: 163590 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Source: fglrx-installer Version: 2:15.200-0ubuntu0.5 $ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon(TM) HD8490 OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1354350 Title: Xorg memory leak on 14.04 Status in fglrx: New Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Same kind of issue as : "Xorg memory leak on trusty" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video- intel/+bug/1272338 After browsing a lot (Firefox 31, Opera 12), after more than 10 hours Xorg uses over 1 GB (some times up to 2 GB). I have 8 GB RAM. It seems to me that the system monitor increase the memory leak. I'm on Linux Mint 17 (64 bits Cinnamon). APU AMD Athlon 5350 (+ driver AMD Catalyst 14.4). top - 12:44:32 up 19:08, 2 users, load average: 1,04, 1,21, 1,30 Tasks: 178 total, 1 running, 177 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 22,2 us, 3,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 73,3 id, 0,6 wa, 0,2 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 7528392 total, 7139440 used, 388952 free, 368300 buffers KiB Swap: 9963572 total, 252560 used, 9711012 free. 1592828 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4646 batman 20 0 2720,8m 212,7m 6,5m S 35,4 2,9 354:46.81 java 1447 root 20 0 3757,3m 3,305g 140,1m S 24,2 46,0 221:35.96 Xorg 4534 batman 20 0 520,9m 23,2m 9,7m S 9,9 0,3 96:48.76 gnome-system-mo 3460 batman 20 0 605,9m 16,2m 7,4m S 6,3 0,2 2:50.10 gnome-terminal 2897 batman 20 0 1827,5m 186,4m 43,1m S 5,6 2,5 66:31.93 cinnamon My current system is: X.Org X Server 1.15.1 Release Date: 2014-04-13 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu lsb_release -rd Description: Linux Mint 17 Qiana Release: 17 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fglrx/+bug/1354350/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
