From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GDM, GNOME and RAM issue
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:55:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <170f3138c38.da2f698a91193.3746784279931367795@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDw7jnk5So+n4WESgqciLG0G3uwR5+KLxdb7O=YBOkMsgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, Catonano :)
---- On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:10:33 -0500 Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> wrote ----
> I remember that the Gnome people fixed a memory leak some months ago
> It had to do with a glitch in the layout of pointers to instances in the Gnome object system that made it difficult for the garbage collector to reach exhausted references
>
> Now I don't remember when this was and what version of Gnome was involved, I'm being a bit vague, I know
>
> But if the version of Gnome in Guix is not recent, there's a good chance that you're running into that bug.
>
There is at least two leak reports upstream against more recent versions of GNOME Shell (Guix has 3.32.2) that look similar to the one I reported:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&search=leak
I'm trying to reproduce the issue in a virtual machine.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-19 13:55 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
2020-03-18 17:10 ` Catonano
2020-03-19 13:55 ` sirgazil [this message]
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