Why is Unity (Compiz) consuming more and more RAM?

11.04 unity compiz ram

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Solution 1

It is a memory leak, probably in multiple places. It should be fixed by Compiz developers. It has been filed as a bug. Please mark yourself as being affected

Solution 2

I was running into this, and just running "unity --replace &" was enough to drop it from 1.5GB down to about 110MB. I'm guessing Unity is telling compiz to create buffers that Unity is failing to tell compiz to clean up. At least I have a reasonable workaround.

Solution 3

Report this as a bug to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz

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Behzadsh

A [Not Pro] web developer

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Behzadsh almost 2 years

About 3 to 4 hours after turning on my PC, compiz 'memory usage' rose from 300MB up to 1.5GB!
What is happening? What is wrong?

Here is the screen-shot from system monitor:
- Chriskin about 13 years
  
  It seems like a bug, mine doesn't move beyond 150MBs no matter what. do you have any of the extra plugins enabled (those not installed by default , i mean, that can be found in synaptic. i think they are called "compiz-plugins-unsupported" or something like that) If not, you should probably send a bug report
- Behzadsh about 13 years
  
  I think it was because of "window preview" plugin. it's on compiz-plugins-extra package. when I disable it, launch-bar and panel went black! and when I run unity --replace memory usage decrease to about 50MB
- egarcia over 12 years
  
  Warning: the previous command should be unity --replace & when executed from the console.
- Hosam.Yousof about 10 years
  
  In my case it was unity-scope-clementine. Uninstall it and unity is sane now.
- tworabbits over 7 years
  
  Would love to add my screenshot, 13.4 GiB used by unity-panel-service on my machine with 16 GB RAM... Fail
Mladen Jablanović about 13 years

bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/720446
Behzadsh about 13 years

I think so, I thought it was because of extra plugins but it happened again, and by restarting unity memory usage coma back to 25MB
Daniel Loureiro almost 10 years

2014 and this memory leak still exists. At least its a well know bug caused by the "indicator-multiload". Just remove it from your system. bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+bug/779717