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[Sim IJskes <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There seems to be a relation to missing redraw rectangles and metacity
getting slower/collecting much memory.

Why does metacity collect so much pixmap memory?


** Attachment added: "xrestop output before and after metacity restart"
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Title:
  Huge memory leak in metacity

Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: metacity

  Metacity uses 72Mb. of RAM. Ubuntu 11.04 Classic desktop

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: metacity 1:2.30.3-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  1 11:30:38 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: metacity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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