Public bug reported:

After 19 days, gnome-shell has 1.1 GiB of memory resident, and tasks
such as switching between workspaces are noticeably janky compared to
the buttery smoothness immediately after a fresh login.

user      1971  4.4  9.7 5070196 1190840 tty2  Sl+  Oct15 1238:57
/usr/bin/gnome-shell

Also note the excessive CPU utilisation, more than an hour per day.

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
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Nov  3 13:49:08 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-02 (335 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-12 (21 days ago)

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


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

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  gnome-shell leaks memory (> 1 GiB), becomes janky

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