Public bug reported: Gnome shell is the single largest resident memory user on my system.
It was hovering at ~700mb, then with a few minutes of use of the system (nothing in particular, mostly shell windows, one google-chrome window) - spiked to ~980mb or so, before retreating to 903m. Even with 16gb of ram, that's a huge chunk of the system. I've not been able to identify anything in particular that I'm doing that triggers the growth. In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1856838/comments/5, it was suggested to open a new bug, instead of adding to one of the several existing bugs for this. I'm happy to help try and debug this, but it's not clear where to start. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun May 3 17:32:52 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-18 (532 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-18 (15 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal third-party-packages wayland-session -- 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/1876641 Title: gnome-shell using almost 1GB of ram. Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Gnome shell is the single largest resident memory user on my system. It was hovering at ~700mb, then with a few minutes of use of the system (nothing in particular, mostly shell windows, one google-chrome window) - spiked to ~980mb or so, before retreating to 903m. Even with 16gb of ram, that's a huge chunk of the system. I've not been able to identify anything in particular that I'm doing that triggers the growth. In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1856838/comments/5, it was suggested to open a new bug, instead of adding to one of the several existing bugs for this. I'm happy to help try and debug this, but it's not clear where to start. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun May 3 17:32:52 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-18 (532 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-18 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1876641/+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
