Bug#974186: /usr/bin/gnome-software: gnome-software uses way too much memory
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:12:30PM +1100, Timothy Allen wrote: > I have a low-end laptop with 2GB of RAM, and I usually run GNOME 3 because > it's > highly polished and light-weight enough that I can still run a browser and a > few terminals to get work done. The one exception is gnome-software, which > frequently claims 15% or more of my RAM whenever it checks for updates. Right > now, it's sitting at ~18%, or 335MB resident — that may not be much on other > computers, but for my little laptop it's often enough to get my browser OOM- > killed while I'm in the middle of something. This might be related to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14827 — connecting gdb to an offending gnome-software process and calling malloc_trim(0) releases a lot of memory; I went from steve2801906 0.1 3.4 2924988 1136840 ? Sl Oct02 6:32 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service to steve2801906 0.1 0.6 2908452 219416 ? Sl Oct02 6:32 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service Regards, Stephen signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#974186: /usr/bin/gnome-software: gnome-software uses way too much memory
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:12:30PM +1100, Timothy Allen wrote: > Thank you for working on keeping GNOME packages up-to-date in Debian, and > thank > you in particular for packaging GNOME Software, which makes it easy to keep on > top of package updates, especially for Testing where they happen regularly. > > I have a low-end laptop with 2GB of RAM, and I usually run GNOME 3 because > it's > highly polished and light-weight enough that I can still run a browser and a > few terminals to get work done. The one exception is gnome-software, which > frequently claims 15% or more of my RAM whenever it checks for updates. Right > now, it's sitting at ~18%, or 335MB resident — that may not be much on other > computers, but for my little laptop it's often enough to get my browser OOM- > killed while I'm in the middle of something. > > Is there some way I can make GNOME Software stop checking for updates, or at > least stop holding (presumably) the entire package list in memory after the > update-check is complete? > > From GNOME Software's hamburger menu, I picked "Update Preferences" and > disabled "Automatic Updates" and "Automatic Update Notifications", but that > doesn't seem to stop it from checking for updates (what seems like) every time > I wake my laptop up. > > I also went into the "Software & Updates" application, and set "Automatically > check for updates" to "Never". Still no change. > > Previously, I've just sent the gnome-software process a SIGTERM and that > cleaned it up until the next time I logged in, but more recently it's been > automatically restarted. > I'm also noticing gnome-software taking up way too much memory, while not doing anything. 2GB resident seems unreasonable, so this isn't limited to low-end hardware. USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jcristau 42111 0.0 11.9 4077948 1927496 ? Sl2020 12:29 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service Cheers, Julien
Bug#974186: /usr/bin/gnome-software: gnome-software uses way too much memory
Package: gnome-software Version: 3.38.0-2 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/gnome-software Dear Maintainer, Thank you for working on keeping GNOME packages up-to-date in Debian, and thank you in particular for packaging GNOME Software, which makes it easy to keep on top of package updates, especially for Testing where they happen regularly. I have a low-end laptop with 2GB of RAM, and I usually run GNOME 3 because it's highly polished and light-weight enough that I can still run a browser and a few terminals to get work done. The one exception is gnome-software, which frequently claims 15% or more of my RAM whenever it checks for updates. Right now, it's sitting at ~18%, or 335MB resident — that may not be much on other computers, but for my little laptop it's often enough to get my browser OOM- killed while I'm in the middle of something. Is there some way I can make GNOME Software stop checking for updates, or at least stop holding (presumably) the entire package list in memory after the update-check is complete? From GNOME Software's hamburger menu, I picked "Update Preferences" and disabled "Automatic Updates" and "Automatic Update Notifications", but that doesn't seem to stop it from checking for updates (what seems like) every time I wake my laptop up. I also went into the "Software & Updates" application, and set "Automatically check for updates" to "Never". Still no change. Previously, I've just sent the gnome-software process a SIGTERM and that cleaned it up until the next time I logged in, but more recently it's been automatically restarted. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-software depends on: ii appstream0.12.11-1 ii apt-config-icons 0.12.11-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.38.0-1 ii gnome-software-common3.38.0-2 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas3.38.0-2 ii libappstream-glib8 0.7.17-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 ii libc62.31-4 ii libcairo21.16.0-4 ii libfwupd21.4.6-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.2-1 ii libgspell-1-21.8.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.23-2 ii libgtk3-perl 0.037-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 234-1 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.0-1 ii libmalcontent-0-00.9.0-2 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.1-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-00.105-29 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.72.0-2 ii libxmlb1 0.1.15-2 ii packagekit 1.2.1-1 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1 Versions of packages gnome-software recommends: ii fwupd 1.4.6-2 Versions of packages gnome-software suggests: pn apt-config-icons-hidpi pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak pn gnome-software-plugin-snap -- no debconf information
