I had the same problem, most often the trigger was opening evince for a .ps or .pdf document. It's one of the things done when I have already a lot of applications open.
As Paul (pantoine) describes, I happen to use my menu also in a vertical manner! That's I guess no coincidence. I have it now at the bottom again, and its back to normal now. So, I can affirm the Gutsy + Vertical Panel memory leak. -- Possible memory leak? gome-panel is a memory hog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108812 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
