Public bug reported:

After around 3 days of uptime, gnome-shell is using almost 6 GB of RAM
in Ubuntu 17.10.

Most applications won't run due to "unable to fork".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 29 15:17:47 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['[email protected]', 
'[email protected]', 
'[email protected]', '[email protected]', 
'show-desktop-button@amivaleo', '[email protected]', 
'Random_Walls@Antares', '[email protected]']"
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 
'firefox.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'org.gnome.gedit.desktop', 
'libreoffice-calc.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop', 
'google-chrome.desktop', 'slack.desktop', 'org.gnome.Calculator.desktop', 
'org.gnome.Screenshot.desktop', 'telegramdesktop.desktop']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'ibus'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'icon-theme' b"'Humanity'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-25 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful wayland-session

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  gnome-shell is using gigabytes of RAM in Ubuntu 17.10

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