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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:09:57 +0100
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To: 40116@debbugs.gnu.org, sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>

Hi sirgazil,

sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> skribis:

> I can't use GNOME anymore because of the problem I explained in the follo=
wing thread:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00206.html
>
> On recent system upgrades, the problem got worse. Before, I could get to =
the end of the day despite the leak; but now it takes around 3 hours for th=
e .gnome-shell-real process run by the gdm user to eat the remaining RAM.

Ouch.

> It seems that the bug is stronger in the GNOME desktop, but I've seen, at=
 least once, .gnome-shell-real using an abnormal amount of RAM while in swa=
y (about 800 MiB).

Could you check if it happens in a VM?  That is, you build your GNOME
config with =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99, try to do some activity in th=
e VM, and
check in top whether =E2=80=98gnome-shell=E2=80=99 is growing.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.