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gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1926598
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1926598

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thanks. That shows gnome-shell is using 392MB resident set size (RSS):

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
damir 4144 9.1 3.2 4681844 392216 ? Rsl 09:48 0:52 /usr/bin/gnome-shell

The 4.6GB is virtual address space (VSZ). Not memory usage. That figure is normal and not a bug.

Your gnome-shell is only using 392MB of RAM.