bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell

bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

I see a memory leak in Gnome Shell 3.32.2

The following is top output after several days of uptime:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES  %CPU  %MEM     ZEIT+ S BEFEHL                                                                                       
  864 gdm       20   0   39,6g   1,1g   0,0   3,5  85:04.12 S  /gnu/store/3r8h4lygzs06jyx89ffi1y2bbda9s76y-gnome-shell-3.32.2/bin/.gnome-shell-real

RES 1.1g is a bit much.

I tried to capture a coredump with gcore -o /tmp/gnome-shell 864, but
that increased the memory usage to 8g RES before I killed gcore.

Best wishes,
Arne
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bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process

[sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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.

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).

My current guix:

$ guix describe
Generation 61	Mar 15 2020 08:44:39	(current)
  sirgazil-x 8274cd7
    repository URL: https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x.git
    branch: master
    commit: 8274cd78f9f6d58e00e057a0eabe58e4e143cc4d
  guix a431a63
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: a431a63537c8103b2a58c9a55d90184fb5c90361


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bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 09:18, sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> wrote:

> I can't use GNOME anymore because of the problem I explained in the following thread:

[...]

> $ guix describe
> Generation 61	Mar 15 2020 08:44:39	(current)

What is the status of this old bug [1]?  Especially since the last merge
of core-updates.


1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41215>


Cheers,
simon

bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell

[Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hi zimoun,

On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 at 11:35 AM, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What is the status of this old bug [1]? Especially since the last merge

At least on my side (I'm sirgazil), the status remains the same: this is not an issue anymore.

I didn't close the issue, though, because I wanted to hear from other people affected by it first.

So, if Julien and Arne, for example, don't experience the issue anymore, I'm happy to close the issue.

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