From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: GDM, GNOME and RAM issue Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:31:45 -0500 Message-ID: <170ee0eb202.11609030b76935.3311231025304822206@zoho.com> References: <17078361cfc.cd3808e751818.4275702550541103094@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEZji-0003bI-5o for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:31:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEZjf-00039T-Ks for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:31:58 -0400 Received: from sender4-pp-o91.zoho.com ([136.143.188.91]:25158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEZjf-00034U-BV for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:31:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <17078361cfc.cd3808e751818.4275702550541103094@zoho.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: sirgazil Cc: Guix Help ---- On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:19:37 -0500 sirgazil wrote= ---- > Hello, >=20 > I've been experiencing the following behavior for months, but didn't hav= e the time to report anything. >=20 > When I boot, a fresh GNOME session uses around 1.3 GiB (I don't know if = this is normal). >=20 > After several hours of work, the desktop starts feeling somewhat slow (e= .g. when launching apps, switching work spaces). When this happens, RAM usa= ge is around 3 GiB (of 4 GiB in total). If I continue working, RAM usage co= ntinues to go up little by little, and I have to reboot at some point, beca= use memory is not released and things become slower. >=20 > 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). >=20 > Here are some screenshots of resource usage reported by the "top" progra= m. GDM looks suspicious: >=20 > =E2=80=A2 RAM usage after several hours of work with the applications I = use every day still running: >=20 > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-afte= r-hours-of-work-all-apps-2020-02-23.png >=20 > =E2=80=A2 RAM usage after closing all applications: >=20 > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-afte= r-hours-of-work-all-apps-closed-2020-02-23.png >=20 > =E2=80=A2 RAM usage after logging out and then login back in: >=20 > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-afte= r-hours-of-work-re-log-in-2020-02-23.png >=20 >=20 > I decided to try sway to see if I had the same problem there, but I thin= k it is something related to GDM+GNOME. In sway, a fresh session uses aroun= d 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.). >=20 I just reported this problem to the issue tracker: http://issues.guix.gnu.o= rg/issue/40116