I can confirm the bug. xorg used all 2G on my machine due to this bug while running eclipse. There's also a bug report on eclipse https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=128617 that makes clear that gtk-qt-engine is to blame. The only workaround is to uninstall gtk- qt-engine
-- GTK applications leading Xorg to huge memory usage https://launchpad.net/bugs/51421 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
