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["Sam \"SmSpillaz\" Spilsbury" <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, thanks for that! Patch applied.

For the other memory leaks, the best way to look into them is to do a
metacity --replace. This is the only way you can tear down all the
compiz stuff at runtime and should give you a better view of what's
going on.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Abhishek Udupa
<755863@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've narrowed it down to the PrivateScreen::syncStacks () function in
> src/screen.cpp. There's a call to XQueryTree there and the "children"
> variable which XQueryTree returns does not look like it escapes the
> function, nor is it freed. I've attached a patch that fixes it for me (2
> hours of uptime with compiz memory usage steady at 21 MB).
>
> I'm no compiz developer nor am I an X11 hacker, so I'm not sure of this
> is the right fix. Could the compiz package maintainers please validate
> the fix as well as pull in the patch?
>
> ** Patch added: "Patch for the Compiz memory leak"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/755863/+attachment/2013293/+files/compiz.patch
>
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  Compiz uses increasingly large amounts of memory