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If they're any good then they've modified your BIOS or Intel SMM.

You'd be well advised to, too.

Couple of hours ago I created a throwaway account and commented here how Xorg held onto 1.1GB of memory after viewing the PDF with the github viewer and/or Atril. Tested and reproduced within a disposable Jessie / MATE VM.

I offered an opinion that this wasn't entirely usual behaviour.

The comment vanished. Not modded away, not "paled", just vanished.

Nothing to see here, move along now.

Viewing the PDF using either the github viewer in Iceweasel 38 or downloading it and viewing it in Atril resulted in 2.1GB memory usage in a spare Jessie / MATE VM I had lying around. Close Atril and Iceweasel, ps -ef to check they're gone, look at top - and Xorg still holds on to 1.14GB.

Kosher it ain't. Proceed at your own risk.