Yasir Assam <yas...@gmail.com> (18/05/2012): > Over the last week or so I've noticed that /usr/bin/X uses loads of > memory, i.e. > > $ ps aux | grep X > root 1558 1.7 74.5 3459428 1535756 tty7 Ssl+ 08:46 1:10 /usr/bin/X > :0 vt7 -br -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-zFHYma > > After about an hour of use, it's using around 1.5G. I get to this > point by running KDE, emacs, Konsole and Chromium. If I quit emacs, > Konsole and Chromium, X still uses loads of memory. > > Within a couple of hours my system grinds to a halt and I have to > restart X (by restarting kdm)
Wild guess, one of your virtualbox devices (input or video) is doing that? Mraw, KiBi.
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