After updating to 17.10 Gnome is now constantly growing to > 12Gb RAM overnight with nothing running. (16Gb system) Under heavy use, memory usage quickly jumps to 14Gb and starts to eat up to 15Gb of Swap. Minimal system mods. Only Firefox running 95% of the time.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616332 Title: gnome-software using hundreds of MB of memory when not in use Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: It seems gnome-software is running in the background all the time. Not a big deal if it was lightweight, but it seems to use hundreds of MB (from smem output): PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 2291 jan /usr/bin/gnome-software --g 285436 112576 117982 134036 A total of over 400MB in RAM and swap combined. After killing and restarting, it takes "only" a bit over 100MB. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-software 3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Aug 24 09:45:53 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-10 (1382 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) SourcePackage: gnome-software UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-19 (65 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1616332/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
