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Public bug reported:

I've had an X session running for a few days now, and top reports that
compiz is using 3.1 GB RSS, 4.6 GB VIRT:

top - 19:27:31 up 6 days, 21:23,  6 users,  load average: 1.47, 1.19, 1.25
Tasks: 277 total,   2 running, 274 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.8%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 95.3%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8130524k total,  7591788k used,   538736k free,     4584k buffers
Swap:  8268796k total,  1629712k used,  6639084k free,   229364k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 1833 jacob     20   0 4694m 3.1g 3.0g S    8 39.7 379:37.75 compiz      

This seems like a pretty nasty memory leak.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.51  Tue Sep 18 17:16:56 PDT 2012
 GCC version:  gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
.proc.driver.nvidia.warnings.fbdev:
 Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
 on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
 requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
 drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
 corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
 
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,put,place,imgpng,compiztoolbox,resize,grid,gnomecompat,unitymtgrabhandles,move,vpswitch,snap,regex,mousepoll,wall,animation,session,fade,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Tue Oct  2 19:23:44 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DpkgLog:
 
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [Quadro 1000M] [10de:0dfa] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21cf]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
JockeyStatus:
 xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
 xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
MachineType: LENOVO 4270CTO
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-31-generic root=UUID=f570967f-22c6-48d5-a01c-e7d0adf5a9f8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/02/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 8BET54WW (1.34 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 4270CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8BET54WW(1.34):bd11/02/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4270CTO:pvrThinkPadW520:rvnLENOVO:rn4270CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 4270CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad W520
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1.4
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.3+8.0.2-0ubuntu3.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.3+8.0.2-0ubuntu3.2
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 possible-manual-nvidia-install precise running-unity ubuntu

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