Comment 1 for bug 886633

 Scott, can you confirm this is still an issue with the latest granite/oneiric? Pantheon-wallpaper does take a decent amount of RAM, but I have found that even after changing wallpapers dozens of times it never goes above 50MB.

As Max explained it to me, it takes up much RAM because it needs to hold two buffers for the images in RAM simultaneously.

In any event, can you confirm whether your memory usage grows boundlessly, or if there's some cutoff point that would indicate that it isn't a bug and simply being something of an inherent ram hog?

Marking as incomplete for now.