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gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1973638
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1973638

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: System very laggy

I can't find a definition for what htop calls 'SWAP'. It might just be virtual memory usage since a few gigabytes is the normal amount of virtual memory usage by gnome-shell. If however htop defines 'SWAP' as actual swap file usage then yes there might be a leak in gnome-shell. But the fact that its RES size (presumably RSS or real RAM usage) is only 168M out of around 3750M of physical memory suggests something *other* than gnome-shell is using up all the RAM.

Next time the problem happens please run:

  ps auxw > psoutput.txt
  free -h > free.txt

and attach the resulting text files here.