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Hi Florian
I managed to reproduce the bug again, I thought I wouldn't be able to. I just opened and closed the dash and places loads of times and changed between the different sections and made sure that I scrolled up and down as well.
However this time I had terminal running with 'ps aux' another with 'top' and the system monitor with some more columns enabled. I have attached a screen shot so you can see. Note that unity-2d-places is at the top of the terminal for 'ps aux'.
The RSS value was: 199904.
Also you said you wanted to know how much RAM I have well I currently have 1Gb of RAM installed and 3.8Gb of SWAP.
Furthermore I noted that the RAM usage does increase even further when you search but I see that that bug has already been reported. On the other hand this one seems different as it seems to slowly increase just from show and hiding the dash/places and then changing sections or scrolling. Could it be something to do with the caching of images or something and it not clearing the cache?
Because over a period of time the RAM usage does slowly reduce back (however this doesn't seem to happen once you have gone above ~100Mb). If you watch the RAM from start up it jumps from ~30Mb to ~50Mb then it slowly drops back. However once it goes above 100Mb it doesn't seem to be released back to the OS.
Hope that helps.
Andy