Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #151168
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 151168

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: memory leak with ring

I've tried this, and it's not a problem with any plugin.

Under nvidia-glx-new, I ran compiz with no plugins enabled, spawned 100 gnome-terminals then killed them. compiz.real's shared memory size increased by ~150Mb and didn't decrease on closing the terminals. Spawning another 100 terminals resulted in a further ~150Mb increase, and so on.
Running under nvidia-glx I tried the same thing and the compiz memory usage appeared stable. However, the 96xx drivers really didn't like running compiz, so it'd be good to get some confirmation from someone else here.

It looks very much like this is a bug in the nvidia-glx-new drivers.

Interestingly, trying to spawn 200 gnome terminals at once crashes X :).