Comment 9 for bug 870042

Memory leaks are bugs. Maybe not always high priority but this should stay open until it is fixed even if that takes a while and it isn't the focus of anyone working on it. Also closing this WONT FIX will leave anyone who has this problem in a way where it does matter (such as on a low-memory system) feeling that the community doesn't care about making good software and that is definitely not a good thing.

Also I hope you are joking about just killing compiz and then rearranging all your windows. It will work of course but it's a bandaid not a fix. It's doing manually something that should be automatic, which is always bad.