Gnome-shell consuming memory

[Colin Law]

For anyone interested I have submitted a bug report.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1862910

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 12:23, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On one of my machines which has been upgraded over several years and
> is now running 19.10 just one of the configured users appears to be
> seeing a dramatic memory leak in gnome-shell, even when nothing is
> happening on the UI. Immediately after logging on, using the Ubuntu
> selection from the logon screen, gnome shell shows as using about
> 134MB. From there it climbs at about 300MB per hour and after a few
> hours the machine grinds to a crawl, not surprisingly. This happens
> even if the user logs on and then the machine is left completely
> alone. Logout and back in frees all the memory.
> A test user I have configured sees no such problem.
> I have uninstalled all extensions apart from the system ones, disabled
> all the system ones and reset all the gnome settings using dconf reset
> -f /org/gnome/ to no avail. Also I have removed
> ~/.local/share/gnome-shell and allowed it to recreate it.
> Also I have removed .compiz, .config/dconf/user, .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2.
> I can't see anything obvious in the log.
> It must be something in my settings that is triggering it as the other
> user does not see it, but I have run out of ideas on what to try.
> All suggestions (within reason) gratefully received.
> Switching away from gnome is not considered to be within reason :)
>
> Colin Law