Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1856838
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1856838

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Erik Meitner (e.meitner) wrote :

Problem is affecting my system. It gets to the point where the system starts thrashing so badly I care barely get to the console and log in to start killing processes.

Ubuntu 20.04
gnome-shell 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

Linux 5.4.0-91-generic (cherna) 01/08/2022 _x86_64_ (8 CPU)
root@cherna:~# pidstat -l -r
03:19:46 PM UID PID minflt/s majflt/s VSZ RSS %MEM Command
03:19:46 PM 1000 4670 99.93 0.17 7408772 2029368 12.77 /usr/bin/gnome-shell

At least I can ALT-F2 & "r" to recover some RAM. If I notice the problem in time....