ok, in my case it seems to have indeed been a specific application. I killed it
- CPU usage was back to normal. Memory was not freed though. I am not sure if
this application hasn't been updated between 11.10 and 12.04, so I cannot say
if a change in xorg or a change in teh application caused it
Interestingly I also have this problem, but with an nVidia card (NVIDIA
Coporation GT215 Quadro FX 880M rev a2) in my Thinkpad, using the
nouveau driver!
I'm using kubuntu 12.04, upgraded step by step from Lucid, and this
problem happens since going to 12.04.
First I had the nvidia driver install
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New => Confirmed
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I'm suffering from this bug with Gnome. I haven't tried XFCE or KDE.
On 2011 6 9 04:40, "Carlos Correia" wrote:
Some more info: after ten minutes of usage (amarok, akregator, kopete
and firefox) I notice that swap is already being used (2GB of RAM). It
seems to be a KDE only problem, I had to sw
Some more info: after ten minutes of usage (amarok, akregator, kopete
and firefox) I notice that swap is already being used (2GB of RAM). It
seems to be a KDE only problem, I had to switch to XFCE for my daily
work and haven't noticed any problems (as long as I don't run KDE apps
like amarok or kop
I solved this problem by using the xorg-edgers ppa. Now xorg hovers
around 150MB, which is way better than 500MB. The problem is that this
is not really a fix, and xorg-edgers comes with it's own host of issues.
I've been using it with out issue for a week or so, but with ppas like
this that coul
Same problem here, maybe is a Nvidia only problem, since I can not
reproduce it on the laptop (Intel graphic card). This happens with *any*
application (thunderbird, amarok, firefox...) after a few minutes of
work.
$ lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit
CPU(s):
I believe I'm also sufferring from this bug. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, kernel
2.6.38-9 on x86_64. My graphics card is an integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150.
I used google-perftools to do a heap profile, and found out that about 99% of
the memory in Xorg's heap was allocated by the function
nvidiaAddDr
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Title:
Xorg memory usage/leak
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