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Am I suffering from the Ubuntu Lucid X memory leak?

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A commenter just wondered if my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid system's increasing use of swap was due to the known memory leak in X on the soon-to-be-released distro. Could be. After 5 hours 30 minutes of uptime, htop shows 9 MB of swap is being used — or at any rate "reserved." Remember, I have 1 GB of RAM on this Intel video-equipped laptop.

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