Ok, the workaround helped me, at least for the RAM consumption issue. Also, I noticed something like that, happening also since update to 16.10 (but I might be mistaken here)
All or some icons change to red signs: http://i.imgur.com/BCVg6m8.png not sure if it is connected with ram issue, but I might be helpful -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635577 Title: memory leak in unity-panel-service To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1635577/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs