If anyone else has this problem, it may be useful to note that I was able to restart the gnome-shell process after it had ballooned to 1.7 GB of memory using the System Monitor app. I just selected End Process and it restarted automatically after a few seconds without crashing the desktop.
If anyone else has this problem, it may be useful to note that I was able to restart the gnome-shell process after it had ballooned to 1.7 GB of memory using the System Monitor app. I just selected End Process and it restarted automatically after a few seconds without crashing the desktop.