You can remove the execution right from hud-service with command "sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hud/hud-service"
to prevent hud-service from launching -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to hud in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1645186 Title: HUD service memory leak (ubuntu 16.04) Status in hud package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Large or very frequent memory leak, realized of it when my system started to need the swap space (not frequent as I usually don't consume more than half of my 16 GB of RAM). The HUD service had 13 GB of the memory used up. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hud/+bug/1645186/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp