I confirm this bug using 11.04 on a laptop with Radeon Mobility X600. The temporary fix of comment 18 works as a charm: metacity memory consumption just went from 283 MB to 14 MB!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774740 Title: Huge memory leak in metacity Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Binary package hint: metacity Metacity uses 72Mb. of RAM. Ubuntu 11.04 Classic desktop ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: metacity 1:2.30.3-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun May 1 11:30:38 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: metacity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/774740/+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
