Subject: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process

From: sirgazil <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:01:11 -0500

I experience the same as Julien yesterday in a computer reconfigured with sway (no GNOME), but still using GDM. Here's a screenshot of "top" with gdm's .gnome-shell-real using 2.5 GiB of RAM:

https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/gnome-shell-real-leak-sway-2020-03-22.png

I'm currently trying other other desktop environments in combination with slim login manager to work around the issue.