i have found a possible fix or workaround to the problem! i installed Ubuntu gnome 16.04 and to my surprise the ram usage was at 1.2gb idle and after just opening my browser and a youtube video it shot up to about 2.3gb which was alarming to say the least, so not one to give up i went in search for a solution and found nothing to help until a came across a very old post that had nothing to do with this particular problem but was taking about evolution services leaking ram, which at that point got me thinking ........ so i fired up the system monitor and proceeded to investigate which processes were consuming the most ram and to my surprise two processes in particular were at the top of the processes food chain 1- gnome-software 2-evolution and disable its processes, so i then proceeded to
uninstall gnome-software; > ( sudo apt remove gnome-software ) < then i removed evolution and its services > ( sudo apt remove evolution ) < disable processes -- type each command below in the terminal -- cd /usr/share/dbus-1/services sudo ln -snf /dev/null org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook.service sudo ln -snf /dev/null org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Calendar.service sudo ln -snf /dev/null org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources.service sudo ln -snf /dev/null org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.UserPrompter.service and after doing this and rebooting my computer my ram was between 870MB and 950MB idle and about 1.2gb to 1.8gb with everything open eg browser youtube apps etc as many as i could open at the same time to test. also this workaround is assuming that you don't need to use evolution or gnome software but an alternative software center i use is Ubuntu mate welcome app and if i need any other particular piece of software i use command line or add a repo. hope this workaround can help someone until the problem is found and fixed. kind regards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572801 Title: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1572801/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
