gnome-shell leaks mem, 1.3G reserved after few days of uptime
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
gnome-shell leaks memory like crazy. after 4 days of uptime it uses 13.8G virt and 1.3G reserved mem. This is after I switched to wayland to mitigate the same issue, but on X.org it was much more crazier - about 20G virt / 1.5G reserved after one-two days of uptime, only the leak was in X.org process (2 of them, greeter and main), not gnome-shell.
p.s. I do understand that gnome is the best piece of software, and I just use it incorrectly - likely I have some extension or application that is at fault. The bug report is sort of rhetorical.
p.p.s. Unmodified LTS system (focal). Started to manifest about a month ago, out of the blue, no changes...
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.9-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Sat Nov 6 01:50:41 2021
DisplayManager: gdm3
RelatedPackageV
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
monitors.xml: Error: path contained symlinks.
Thanks for the bug report.
First please look in $HOME/. local/share/ gnome-shell and ensure there is no directory named 'extensions'. If there is one then remove it and log in again.
Similarly please open the 'Extensions' app and ensure you only find the three Ubuntu extensions listed.