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[Roland <887677@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it "better" if you

compiz --replace &

? 
I'm trying to drill down a similar problem that seems to happen with Ubuntu 11.10, Unity and Compiz. After some days of a working X session compiz is growing and hogging more and more memory/cpu.

There is a leak somewhere.

I have several apps open all the time (VMware player, Firefox, Opera,
Gnome Terminal, ...).

$ ps aux | grep compiz
roland    2424  0.0  0.0   4264   388 ?        Ss   Nov08   0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/compiz-decorator
roland   17026 10.3  9.1 1373904 745044 pts/0  Rl   Nov14 575:40 compiz --replace

As you can see, it is running for  10 days (used for 8 hours a day, it
is my workstation) and already grow up to 750MB. Even if nothing happens
at the desktop at all, it consumes 10% cpu time (Core2 Duo).

This is getting worse with bigger uptimes.

If I restart compiz like mentioned, the whole desktop instantly feels
faster and more fluid (not because of the memory, I'm not swapping).

How can I help pinning this one down?

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Title:
  Possible Memory Leak using 3Finger with Ubuntu 11.10

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