Try a heap profiler. The problem with high memory usage is that it's often just indefinitely bloat and not a permanent 'leak'. This means the program still has enough smarts to free it all on shutdown and no leak checker will tell you what the problem was. But while it's running it's still too big. So use a heap profiler...
http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse326/05wi/valgrind-doc/ms_main.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659255 Title: memory leak Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Not having looked into what exactly uses it, but after keeping unity8 running over night, it consumes over 5GB of memory. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1659255/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
