X eventually consumes large amounts of memory

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X eventually consumes large amounts of memory

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Linux Mint 17.2 KDE (also occurred in 17.1)
AMD Radeon HD 6970
8 GB RAM

using htop:

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/usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/mdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt8
After booting, this processes' MEM% is low, around 3 to 4% but within a couple hours or so will balloon to around 65%+ on a system with 8 GB of RAM. Is there any legitimate reason X needs over 4 GB of RAM? At most, I have firefox (maybe 25 tabs), konsole, clementime, kate and synergy running most of the time. The slowdown when it comes to opening/moving to new browser tabs, minimizing windows, etc becomes painfully slow. Any suggestions to resolve what might be causing this behaviour?

Logging out and back in doesn't appear to resolve the issue forcing a reboot until I can troubleshoot it further. Update, Logging out/in resolves this but is still annoying.

Thanks!
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