From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix Subject: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:01:11 -0500 Message-ID: <17108574fb7.db28f889144585.6378115481300336402@zoho.com> References: <170ee024512.c9ac6ac476703.6325608537898017895@zoho.com> Reply-To: sirgazil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGQSh-0008F4-HR for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jGQSg-0007c7-AI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jGQSg-0007bz-4W for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jGQSg-0000sK-2f for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:02:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 40116 <40116@debbugs.gnu.org> I experience the same as Julien yesterday in a computer reconfigured with sway (no GNOME), but still using GDM. Here's a screenshot of "top" with gdm's .gnome-shell-real using 2.5 GiB of RAM: https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/gnome-shell-real-leak-sway-2020-03-22.png I'm currently trying other other desktop environments in combination with slim login manager to work around the issue.