This happens to me too.
Yesterday, I've put an animation for my desktop wallpaper (the fedora's
solar desktop that changes the background according to the time of day),
and in only 10 hours Xorg ate 3.2 GiB of memory. I restarted the X, and
after another 3 hours, Xorg was already eating 700 MiB of memory. Then,
I changed my desktop background to the static image and restarted the X
and now Xorg is stable at 128 MiB of memory usage.
At first I thought that it was the problem with the transition effect
while changing the background, but now I tried to change the desktop
background a few times, and every time I change the background, the
memory usage of the Xorg increases by the size of the newly selected
image - so after a few changes of bigger pictures, Xorg increased it's
memory usage by 100 MiB.
** Also affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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xorg memory leak when changing desktop wallpapers (Gnome)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254107
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