I did have indicator-multiload active. Removing it has stopped the leak from increasing at a rate of 1MiB/s and made my computer usable again. There does still seem to be some sort of leak, but the usage has only reached 63MiB and I've been running for about 3 or 4 hours. (The mem usage when logging in starts at about 23MiB or so...)
I did notice that the problem did not occur when running Classic Gnome, even with indicator-multiload running. Just in Unity... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720446 Title: possible memory leak in compiz when using places, dashboard -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs