Gnome-shell consuming memory

[Sorin Srbu]

On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 09:07 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> For anyone interested I have submitted a bug report.
> 
> https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fubuntu%2F%2Bsource%2Fgnome-shell%2F%2Bbug%2F1862910&data=02%7C01%7Csorin.srbu%40ki.se%7C1fdb2e76fd0a4029162608d7af9e75e3%7Cbff7eef1cf4b4f32be3da1dda043c05d%7C0%7C0%7C637170967426554525&sdata=BvYBIYUPJgmiAGyBGFTb2qL8%2B2ZnMQppiH3DvSlNm7E%3D&reserved=0
> 
> 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

I've seen this too with my SOHO-computer updated over several years.
For me however a logout/relogin didn't free the memory, a reboot was
necessary to get rid of the maxed out RAM and swapping harddrives, but only
for a couple of hours. The a reboot was needed again. No amount of disabling
extensions helped.
As I use my computer for remote-work, I got fed up with this and went the
KDE-way instead.
No more problems after that...

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