compiz periodically runs away with memory consumption

[Doug Schouten]

On an approximately daily basis, compiz will sudenly start eating memory at a very fast rate until my system becomes unresponsive. Sometimes I am able to escape to run-level "1" and send SIGKILL to compiz, but often my system is swapping so hard it will take > 10 minutes get to a shell. The necessary reboots are a rather big pain (especially when my auto-save is @ 4:59 MM:SS out of 5:00 and I was hammering code for the last four minutes).

I have tried monitoring the memory usage and I have seen it growing rather slowly from ~ 80MB at bootup to 100MB after some hours, but then it will suddenly jump to GB's; I have never noticed it climbing until my system freezes up, and I have not been able to find a trigger for it.

Any help would be great. Right now I don't trust starting any work on my home desktop ...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Wed May 15 19:29:51 2013
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:2401]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-09 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MachineType: MSI MS-7599
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic root=UUID=44d0eadd-1559-4854-a06f-e6c8a6e8fa72 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V10.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 870-G45 (MS-7599)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 2.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 2.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV10.4:bd05/14/2010:svnMSI:pnMS-7599:pvr2.0:rvnMSI:rn870-G45(MS-7599):rvr2.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr2.0:
dmi.product.name: MS-7599
dmi.product.version: 2.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.43-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.1.1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.1.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2b2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.6-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.7-0ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Wed May 15 18:05:31 2013
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input Logitech Optical USB Mouse MOUSE, id 8
 input Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 KEYBOARD, id 9
 input Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600 KEYBOARD, id 10
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6
xserver.video_driver: nouveau

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has reached EOL since a while, so it will not receive update. If that issue still exist, report again using ubuntu-bug.