I don't think this is strictly a Unity problem. I recently noticed that gnome-shell was eating memory in Ubuntu 16.04.2 (64-bit), consuming all available RAM and SWAP space before ultimately resulting in errors resembling, "Unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory," which occurred when launching any application within Gnome. Rebooting the server freed up memory temporarily, but didn't fix the problem. It appears to be a bug involving the proprietary NVIDIA display drivers. Maybe identical to this bug report, which was supposedly patched last year: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/879616/linux/memory-leak-for-gnome-shell-for-gdm-user-all-driver-versions-/post/4685195/
In the meanwhile, switching back to the open-source Nouveau display drivers seems to have stopped the memory leak. Unfortunately I have a few games on Steam that perform better with the proprietary drivers, so I hope this is something that gets fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572801 Title: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1572801/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
