If you feel adventurous, you can installed a patched unity from ppa:mh21/ppa that should contain a fix for the leak.
** Patch added: "unity-pixbuf-fix.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+bug/779717/+attachment/2141201/+files/unity-pixbuf-fix.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779717 Title: indicator-multiload causes a memory leak in compiz when run under unity -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs