** Changed in: gnome-software
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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Title:
incredibly high memory usage
To manage no
Ok, somewhat good news. I have been watching the memory usage on the
machine as many applications start / stop , and am tracking the growth
and management.
A tool to tweak the behavior ---
One system parameter I had tweaked before reporting this issue was
vm.swappiness , I had moved this down to
Please also only test the "apt" version of gnome-software for now
because bugs from flatpaks can't be tracked here. The "ubuntu/+source"
part of the URL means we're only talking about debs installed via apt.
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Yes, I killed the process as it approached 6GB after I filed this
report.
I will report back with the growth over the next few days. I suspect it
occured when I switched between different wireless networks and physical
locations, but I would need to run a series of tests to conslude this
for cert
There is no indication of a bug in the attachment of comment #6.
The largest process is one of your Chrome tabs, and most of your memory
is occupied by Chrome tabs.
gnome-software has a resident set size of "only" 493616K. I agree that's
a silly amount of memory, but it's not unusual these days a
Ok, one better, sorted results (lots of chrome tabs appear, fyi).
ps auxw --sort -rss > psall.txt
See attached file, since gnome-software has restarted, in 1 day it's up
to 501+MB and written ~1.9GB to disk (why??).
** Attachment added: "psall.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/g
The attached information looks like memory mapped files. So that's
virtual address space, not real memory.
Please run:
ps auxw > psall.txt
and attach the resulting text file here.
** Project changed: xorg-server => gnome-software
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-software (Ubuntu)
