I dist-upgraded to Dapper last week and I noticed this bug yesterday. I've got 768 MB of RAM, and gnome-cups-icon was around 20% of memory usage. I killed it and this morning it is back around 7%. It seems to be very slowly increasing while I did not print anything since yesterday.
-- memory leak in gnome-cups-icon https://launchpad.net/bugs/45406 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs