Originally Posted by mesamb1

Sounds like you forgot to deallocate your memory. I find segfault and memory leak stories break the ice with any CS person.

SuperNerd256, I find it unlikely that your compressor was taking up that much memory. I am rusty on my C++ library, but I could not imagine it is doing massive amount of of operations(perhaps a few function calls that go no where when the compressor is unplugged) or declare so much memory you eventually get a lag(unlike an image which is large).
Some suggested trouble shooting(which you may have tried), is your battery good? Is the Classmate running something else(possibly in the background, an update program or something that has highest network priority then the driver station and is trying to figure out why your robot is not responding to its internet request) using task manager? Is this a recent compile of the code(like Chris is me's story, but insert any variable that has never been deallocated will add up over time)? Is your robot in a Faraday Cage?