Personal record: gnome-shell was up to 2.8 GB over the weekend. System Monitor would not start (notification let me know, surprisingly, that it failed to start because it could not allocate memory), but I had a terminal open and I was able to `kill` it successfully without crashing X.
Personal record: gnome-shell was up to 2.8 GB over the weekend. System Monitor would not start (notification let me know, surprisingly, that it failed to start because it could not allocate memory), but I had a terminal open and I was able to `kill` it successfully without crashing X.