I have that problem too, Xorg consumes about 2GB of ram when using Firefox 7 or more pages open. with Maxthon on youtube or facebook, game occurs when using wine, I attached a screenshot.
Characteristics; Kubuntu 14.04 64bits, 3.13.0-29-generic, FX-6300 3.5Ghz, 4GB 1333Mhz, Nvidia GT440 1024Mb GDDR5 with proprietary drivers 337.25, no desktop visual effects PD: sorry for my english.... http://i61.tinypic.com/20a6fzb.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272338 Title: Xorg memory leak on trusty Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: After a few hours Xorg process was consuming a GB of RAM, after a day or so it was 2GB, now after 2 days it's over 4GB. I'd rather X wasn't eating all my RAM. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1710 root 20 0 5270636 4.300g 277872 S 14.2 27.6 229:09.97 Xorg ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,scale,workarounds,mousepoll,regex,wall,move,place,vpswitch,resize,unitymtgrabhandles,snap,session,expo,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Jan 24 13:36:48 2014 DistUpgraded: 2014-01-20 08:54:25,315 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21da] InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-29 (573 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MachineType: LENOVO 4287CTO ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-5-generic root=UUID=6088859e-4fc3-4ec8-903f-5b52cdc1d0eb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-20 (4 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET67WW (1.37 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4287CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET67WW(1.37):bd12/05/2012:svnLENOVO:pn4287CTO:pvrThinkPadX220:rvnLENOVO:rn4287CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4287CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.51-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.0.1-1ubuntu2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.0.1-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu11 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.907-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu1 xserver.bootTime: Wed Jan 22 12:54:42 2014 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 728 vendor LGD xserver.version: 2:1.14.5-1ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1272338/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp