My uptime today is 4.5 days and my memory usage is 61% of 8GB with 2GB
accounted to programs.   Still on the 600MB/day all-you-can-leak plan.

Yesterday the strange monochrome window effect began to show its face
again.  I saw it on Evolution, Cutecom, the background colour for my
tilda terminal, and for the first time, the background of the tooltip
pop-up for System Monitor.  These all became monochrome where they are
normally coloured.

Also saw two visual artifacts: there was a 16x16-ish block of coloured
pixels in the tilda background while the rest of the background went
monochrome.  A smaller 8x8-ish artifact of yellow pixels was visible in
the System Monitor tooltip background when it went grey.  The colour
comes back again within 15 to 60s, but it's not triggered by any
specific user action I've been able to correlate.

I've only seen this monochrome behaviour on Lucid with the Evergreen
video card *after* adopting Evolution as my mail client and beginning an
embedded project which keeps Cutecom on my desktop a lot.   Sometimes I
think Evolution is deliberately fading to monochrome when IMAP is busy
doing something else, and perhaps this effect is bleeding into other
windows.   It could be unrelated to my memory leak which has persisted
across many changes.

<rant>
Apparently in Evolution text mode isn't text mode.  Formatting (blue links, 
variable line leading) introduced via my paste buffer into a text-mode message 
won't go away when dismissed with prejudice.  That's about 100,000% too much 
fidelity with Microsoft Outlook for my personal well being.   I'm not in the 
market for another disruption, so I'm just going to close my eyes and declare 
radio silence on all things Evolution in subsequent posts unless I catch it 
holding a smoking gun.      
</rant>

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severe memory leak began in Karmic, persisting in Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590566
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