Comment 14 for bug 98783

I have the same problem on my laptop running 8.10 which has a standard intel graphics card, and have had this problem ever since 7.04 (didn't use ubuntu before then).

Like Francisco, my Xrestop also looks fairly 'normal', and closing firefox doesn't change more than at most a couple of meg of ram.

Its a pretty annoying bug because it forces me to restart ubuntu every day, or wave goodbye to a couple hundred meg of ram.

Anything I can do to mitigate the problem / any command to run that can aid in debugging the problem?

Cheers, and keep up the good work, really enjoying my switch to ubuntu so far! :-)