I also can confirm that this issue persists in Ubuntu 20.04 (focal).
It's pretty irritating... it's bad enough that all of these Electron-
based apps and chromium-based browsers are chewing up ~400-500Mb each.
I don't need a silly software management UI doing it, too!

I recognize that gnome-software may not be a default-installed package on 
Ubuntu 20.04, but it 
still is widely used (I have several Flatpaks I need for work, and 
gnome-software offers the ability to easily install and coordinate their 
updates).  Can't some developers at Red Hat and Canonical put their heads 
together for a few minutes and get this corrected, please?

I also will second Meluco's comment.  We should not all have to buy new
32Gb laptops just to run a simple productivity workstation.

This really needs to get corrected.  I am seeing reports of memory leaks
in gnome-software going back as far as Ubuntu 16.04.

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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)

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