Gnome-shell consuming memory

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 16:18, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 13:26, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Switching away from gnome is not considered to be within reason :)
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> Yep, that sounds like GNOME.
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> It's half written in JavaScript, the leakiest language on Unix since
> PHP. Standard behaviour, guv.

It isn't standard behaviour as the other user on the same machine does
not have a problem, nor is it a problem on another two similar
machines.  There is something in this users settings that is causing a
massive leak.  We are not talking about slow dribble here but a
veritable flood.  16GB/day with the machine sitting doing nothing
other than ticking over.  No UI interaction.

Colin