Xorg memory use gradually increases over time, eventually requiring a restart
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Over the space of several days, the system becomes more and more sluggish. If I run "top", the memory use of Xorg can be as high as 3GB. The only remedy I know of is to restart Xorg.
From top:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2371 robin 20 0 1655916 1.0g 75224 S 9.6 13.4 8:18.10 Xorg
My system has 8GB of RAM.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 5.18.6-
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckR
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback
Date: Thu Jun 30 12:53:15 2022
DistUpgraded: 2022-04-30 00:12:41,820 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: '/usr/lib/
DistroCodename: jammy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
acpi-call/1.2.2, 5.15.0-40-generic, x86_64: installedACPI disabled in this kernel, not building module.
acpi-call/1.2.2, 5.17.9-
acpi-call/1.2.2, 5.18.6-
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [17aa:21f3]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-26 (1130 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
MachineType: LENOVO 2347CTO
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-29 (61 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/25/2012
dmi.bios.release: 1.16
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: G1ET41WW (1.16 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 2347CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.ec.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T430
dmi.product.name: 2347CTO
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_2347
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.14.
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.110-1ubuntu1
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affects: | ubuntu → vlc (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- [GNOME-Flashback] Xorg memory use gradually increases over time, - eventually requiring a restart + Xorg memory use gradually increases over time, eventually requiring a + restart |
Thanks for the bug report. The leak is likely in an application, since the Xorg process holds all the memory associated with app windows and resources.
Please use 'xrestop' to find out which windows are using the most memory.