From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40116@debbugs.gnu.org, sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
Subject: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:08:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftdrta8e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a74d8zsq.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:09:57 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 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 following 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 the .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 sway (about 800 MiB).
>
> Could you check if it happens in a VM? That is, you build your GNOME
> config with ‘guix system vm’, try to do some activity in the VM, and
> check in top whether ‘gnome-shell’ is growing.
That looks like an upstream problem
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/64
are we going to investigate backporting a fix?
janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-18 14:18 bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-03-18 15:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 16:10 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-03-29 16:08 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-03-29 16:10 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-03-18 16:09 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-03-19 18:13 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-03-22 0:38 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-03-23 17:01 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-03-24 13:15 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-10-01 15:56 ` Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-03-23 11:35 ` bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell zimoun
2022-03-23 15:13 ` Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-03-23 15:46 ` bug#40116: " zimoun
2022-03-23 16:00 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-04-09 15:19 ` bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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