From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
Cc: Guix Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GDM, GNOME and RAM issue
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:31:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <170ee0eb202.11609030b76935.3311231025304822206@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17078361cfc.cd3808e751818.4275702550541103094@zoho.com>
---- On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:19:37 -0500 sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> wrote ----
> Hello,
>
> I've been experiencing the following behavior for months, but didn't have the time to report anything.
>
> When I boot, a fresh GNOME session uses around 1.3 GiB (I don't know if this is normal).
>
> After several hours of work, the desktop starts feeling somewhat slow (e.g. when launching apps, switching work spaces). When this happens, RAM usage is around 3 GiB (of 4 GiB in total). If I continue working, RAM usage continues to go up little by little, and I have to reboot at some point, because memory is not released and things become slower.
>
> When RAM usage is very high, closing all applications reduces usage to 2 GiB approx. (which I think is too high). If I log out and then log back in, those 2 GiB are still in use (which I think is odd).
>
> Here are some screenshots of resource usage reported by the "top" program. GDM looks suspicious:
>
> • RAM usage after several hours of work with the applications I use every day still running:
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-all-apps-2020-02-23.png
>
> • RAM usage after closing all applications:
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-all-apps-closed-2020-02-23.png
>
> • RAM usage after logging out and then login back in:
>
> https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-re-log-in-2020-02-23.png
>
>
> I decided to try sway to see if I had the same problem there, but I think it is something related to GDM+GNOME. In sway, a fresh session uses around 700 MiB; after hours of work (using the same applications I use every day), RAM usage stays between 2 and 2.5 GiB; and when I exit all applications, RAM seems to be released ok (descends to 900 MiB approx.).
>
I just reported this problem to the issue tracker: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40116
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-18 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 17:19 GDM, GNOME and RAM issue sirgazil
2020-02-25 16:00 ` sirgazil
2020-03-18 14:31 ` sirgazil [this message]
2020-03-18 17:10 ` Catonano
2020-03-19 13:55 ` sirgazil
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