On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:28:48PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > I have news regarding this bug (or at least I believe this is the same > bug). > > GNOME devs have found a "memory leak" in gnome-shell's garbage > collection, when related to GJS. They have merged the fix into the > development branch (GNOME 3.30) and are going to (probably) merge into > the 3.28 version as well. > > https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/
Until very recently, this was kind of bearable. But recently, it because way worse. I rebooted my machine 2 days ago, when gnome-shell was sucking close to 10GB memory. It's been 2 days, and it's already sucking 4GB. That's with version 3.30.1-2. Mike

