Comment 6 for bug 1314787

I have the same problem since I upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 on my TOSHIBA S50D. AMD A10 4 core processor and a RADEON HD 8500 dual graphis card. With only the system monitor running in a 24 hour period Xorg consumes 7GB of pgysical memory and 4 GB of swap space.

Another symptom, is that on the systm monitor it shows the 4 cores, but they appear to working on the the same task, amost like they were acting as a single core processor. I initially saw this same behaviour when I install 13.04. The resilution was to install the AMD driver, however, when I attempt to install the AMD driver the installation process complains that there is an existing fglrx and to remove it. Once I remove the fglrx package I boot into "LOW GRAPHICS MODE". Again, if I user the terminal in low graphics mode and try to complie the AMD driver, the process trys to create a fglrx package and the installation process complains that the is an existing fglrx installed package.

Under Additional Drivers, I get the memory leak whether I use the Xorg driver, or the fglrx-updates or the fglrx option. I also do not see any of the four cores operating independently.

I would appreciate suggestion, because I am running dry.

Thanks