I have no idea why, but after half a day or so of usage, gnome-shell uses 1.4 GB of memory. I have never seen an OS where the shell is so "hungry", there seem to be lots of memory leaks. Good the system has 12 GB of RAM, otherwise I would have lots of swap. Unity never did not do things like this, I really hope there will be a fix soon.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Nov 9 01:32:07 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', 'gnomeGlobalAppMenu@lestcape']"
b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'firefox.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop', 'org.gnome.Terminal.desktop', 'update-manager.desktop', 'filezilla.desktop', 'org.gnome.Screenshot.desktop', 'org.kde.ksysguard.desktop']"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'show-battery-percentage' b'true'
b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-21 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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