hud-service in system monitor is currently using 800 MB of memory. Is this normal? What is it for? Is there a way I can reduce it?
Ubuntu – hud-service is using 800 MB, is this necessary
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If you install lo-menubar , then the HUD works with LibreOffice. It's the same mechanism.
It hasn't been used by default because it hasn't been stable enough. But whether or not it will be default by the time 12.04 is released, I don't know.
I don't think is possible, since the HUD is part of Unity itself, you can check:
There they show you how to disable it
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Sadly this is this bug which is being looked at and a fix will hopefully be available soon in the software updates...
You could kill the hud-service in the system monitor and recover all the memory it was using, plus it will restart the service: