I've been continuing to monitor this problem. My system has now been up for five days without FF doing an unexpected termination (at which point I do a system restart, ending further observation of the memory leak). My memory usage is now at 72% of 5.8GB, while known applications account for about 1.5GB.
The system monitor memory usage statistic seems to have certain quanta with 5% jumps, mostly up, but sometimes also down. 61%, 66%, and 72% are numbers I've seen frequently in the last two days. As the number surpassed 70% I've experienced weirdness with X. The first time it was a CuteCom window that suddenly changed color palette to monochrome, ranging from blacks to dark greys. It was unresponsive for several seconds, so I killed it. Just now, the same thing happened with FF while I was trying to obtain focus in an edit box. It became responsive again after a few seconds before I reached for the kill switch. Then it happened again (the monochrome color palette) and was locked up even longer before coming back to life. It seems to be that my memory usage declines by 5% between freezing up and fading to black, and unfreezing up again, as if some 256MB block of memory has been salvaged by X somehow during its stint in the penitentiary. Yesterday evening I also noticed that the window bars on all my windows had changed from default blue to either monochrome or a very faint blue. This color change included the background color of my guake terminal, but did not include the scroll bars in my Eclipse instance, which remained the normal blue. It included all windows across my nine desktops in normal view as well as Expo. The last time my system got to this point, FF punted, so to protect my work, I'm going to reboot now without continuing these observations under extreme leakage. I didn't mention this in my first report, but this system is a bog standard Asus P5B with an E6600 that has been running Linux for three years now solid as a rock, with never a problem like this. -- severe memory leak began in Karmic, persisting in Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590566 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
