I confirm this on my Lenovo T400, ATI mobility radeon 3400 series, Jaunty 9.04, with Canonical's version of the proprietary driver. If I have desktop effects enabled (I use Gnome), Xorg's memory usage goes up without bound up to a few gigabytes per a day. Disabling desktop effects stops this.
-- restricted drivers (ATI) causes Xorg memory leakage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs