Unity leaks memory even when desktop is idle, screen locked in 12.10
Bug #1075614 reported by
Stephen A. Goss
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
You can see the memory usage growing on my work computer over the weekend (not the spikes where I started using the machine, just the slow growth on Sat/Sun): http://
That's all compiz, it leaks about 100 MB a day, even idle with the screen locked. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. That process will grow up to over 1.5 GB in a couple weeks and I'll have to reboot my machine just to reclaim memory. Normally I wouldn't care if apps leak some memory, but compiz is a core service, I haven't found a way to restart it without trashing my desktop.
description: | updated |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.0.0 → 7.0.1 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.0.1 → 7.3.1 |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → Incomplete |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.3.1 → none |
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Please try installing package gnome-session- fallback and logging into Gnome Classic (Compiz without Unity). Does the problem still happen there? If not then it's a Unity problem (which runs inside compiz).