Well, none of the distribution you have been using had GNOME 3.26 either which is brand new.
gnome-shell uses 236M here on my uptodate artful amd64 installation with a session which has been open for a day and cpu usage is low in summary, right the situation is not normal and would deserve some debugging, it could come from your configuration (do you use some extension?) or be a bug (likely upstream since we have little modifications to the shell). Do you see the same issue under a GNOME session rather than an Ubuntu one? Do you have it if you switch to Adwaita? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718552 Title: gnome-shell uses lots of memory Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On Ubuntu 17.10 (daily build, VirtualBox), gnome-shell uses lots of memory, even more after opening and closing just a few apps (LibreOffice Writer, Chromium, Nautilus.) More than 640 mb. Also,the CPU usage is quite high too, even if nothing is running in the foreground. See screen captures. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1718552/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
