gnome-shell memory leak (when Ubuntu AppIndicators is enabled)

[Sergiu]

over day gnome-shell memory usage increase to 1GB and more. I have 2 enabled extensions:
gnome-extensions list --enabled
<email address hidden>
<email address hidden>

other info:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gnome-shell 42.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-48.54-generic 5.15.53
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 4 22:35:24 2022
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-07-03 (93 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 42.2-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It appears you also have extension '<email address hidden>' enabled. Please start by deleting all local extensions:

  cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell
  rm -rf extensions

and then log in again and tell us if the leak still happens. If you find the leak is still happening then please run:

  ps auxw | grep gnome-shell > psout.txt

and attach the resulting text file here.

Please also note there is still a major leak in 22.04 known to be caused by screenshots: bug 1973638

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Moving to private to avoid "me too" comments from other users. Everyone should log their own separate bugs.

[Sergiu (sgumanea)]

Leak is still there. No screenshots taken

ls -lah ~/.local/share/gnome-shell
total 12K
drwx------ 2 sergiu sergiu 4.0K Oct 5 16:21 .
drwx------ 28 sergiu sergiu 4.0K Oct 5 16:25 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sergiu sergiu 2.2K Oct 5 16:21 application_state
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sergiu sergiu 0 Jul 3 14:27 gnome-overrides-migrated

Thanks

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

As soon as you notice the leak next time, please run:

  journalctl -b0 > journal.txt

and attach the resulting text file here.

[Sergiu (sgumanea)]

journalctl file +
fresh psout:

sergiu 4082 8.7 5.1 6195276 823344 ? Rsl 09:28 10:07 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
sergiu 4211 0.0 0.1 796300 21860 ? Sl 09:28 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server
sergiu 4329 0.0 0.2 2932900 39876 ? Sl 09:28 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Notifications
sergiu 4835 0.0 0.1 2939516 27940 ? Sl 09:28 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver
sergiu 26996 0.0 0.0 9208 2324 pts/1 S+ 11:24 0:00 grep --color=auto gnome-shell

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks. Please try disabling <email address hidden> and log in again. Does that stop the leak?

[Sergiu (sgumanea)]

Thanks. Looks like that's it, after 1.5 hours the memory usage is still around 110MB

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please try to identify the smallest set of indicators that will trigger the leak.

[Sergiu (sgumanea)]

After closed this app https://github.com/ThePBone/GalaxyBudsClient , it took about 2 days to increase memory usage to 400MB

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - 49-1

---------------
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (49-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * appIndicator: Make sure AppIndicatorProxy init_async is a wrapper
  * dbusMenu: Unset shellItem icon property on destruction
  * dbusMenu: cleanup StIcon initialization
  * appIndicator: Keep retrying till MAX retries to get needed properies
  * promiseUtils: Update promisify polyfill to last gjs version
  * util: Add utility function to refresh all properties on proxy
  * appIndicator: Move proxy specific methods to AppIndicatorProxy
  * appIndicator: Avoid dynamically initialized proxy parameters
  * util: Add CancellableChild
  * appIndicator: Use CancellableChild for property operations
  * appIndicator: Set properties we depend on
  * appIndicator: Use cancellable child to handle icons loading cancellation
  * appIndicator: Simplify argbToRgba code to use less promises
  * appIndicator: Consider Resource scale to pick right icon size
  * appIndicator: Log error for overlay icons loading error too
  * iconCache: Actually perform Garbage Collection
  * iconCache: Ensure GC is repeated if there are items to clear
  * iconCache: Keep track of active icons inside the cache
  * appIndicator: Avoid creating prototypes for simple objects
  * appIndicator: Manually load the file icons as GdkPixbuf (LP: #1991709)
  * appIndicator: Disable caching of Gio.FileIcons textures
  * iconCache: Increase GC interval and icon lifetime
  * iconCache, appIndicator: Update active state for any icon cached
  * appIndicator: Add more class elements for repeated data
  * appIndicator: Use better naming for function refreshing proxy properties
  * appIndicator: Use an object to hold returned icon parameters
  * appIndicator: Never deep unpack pixmaps properties
  * appIndicator: Move pixmap-related functions to a custom file
  * appIndicator: Unset cached properties on proxy destruction
  * appIndicator: Freeze objects used as enums
  * appIndicator: Free the cached pixmaps variants when not needed
  * appIndicator: Load icons as pixbufs using the required height only
  * appIndicator: Avoid getting icon scaling multiple times

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Mar 2023 03:39:23 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gjs - 1.76.0-3

---------------
gjs (1.76.0-3) experimental; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches: Drop patch causing GNOME Characters not to show emojis
    (LP: #2015948)

gjs (1.76.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Add context-Clear-all-vectors-of-JS-Heap-on-dispose.patch (LP: #1974293)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches: Do not leak GVariants and other handled objects
    (LP: #1991709, #2012978)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:40:15 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Magdy Lotfy (zorono)]

**free --giga --human**:
```
               total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.6G 4.0G 374M 351M 3.3G 3.0G
Swap: 23G 117M 23G
```
**gnome-extensions list --enabled**:
```
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fq@megh
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no-overview@fthx
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NotificationCounter@coolllsk
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```
**ps auxw | grep gnome**:
```
USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
johnm 5474 0.0 0.0 242108 7204 ? SLl 03:15 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
johnm 5478 0.0 0.0 163440 6112 tty2 Ssl+ 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session env GNOME_SHELL_SESSION_MODE=ubuntu /usr/bin/gnome-session --session=ubuntu
johnm 5485 0.0 0.1 224196 15580 tty2 Sl+ 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary --session=ubuntu
johnm 5546 0.0 0.0 92960 5104 ? Ssl 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-session-ctl --monitor
johnm 5569 0.0 0.2 521284 17692 ? Ssl 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary --systemd-service --session=ubuntu
johnm 5774 11.2 4.5 5446336 359844 ? Ssl 03:15 3:01 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
johnm 5807 0.0 0.2 1059236 20344 ? Sl 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server
johnm 5948 0.0 0.3 2670180 27068 ? Sl 03:15 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Notifications
johnm 5950 0.0 0.0 162676 7332 ? Sl 03:15 0:00 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session
johnm 6014 0.5 2.6 868404 210992 ? Sl 03:15 0:08 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
johnm 6216 0.0 0.3 2670180 26836 ? Sl 03:15 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver
johnm 6283 0.0 0.4 670000 33288 ? Ssl 03:16 0:00 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
johnm 6286 0.1 1.0 3020104 78652 ? Sl 03:16 0:02 gjs /<email address hidden>/ding.js -E -P /<email address hidden> -M 0 -D 1280:0:1366:768:1:27:56:0:0:0 -D 0:0:1280:1024:1:0:56:0:0:1
johnm 7274 0.0 0.2 37388 ...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

John, please:

1. Remove all those extensions from your system.

2. If you still experience leaks after that then please open a new bug.