GNU bug report logs - #40116
GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process

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Package: guix;

Reported by: sirgazil <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>

Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:19:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 41215

Done: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: sirgazil <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40116 <40116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:10:49 -0500

 ---- On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:09:57 -0500 Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote ----

[...]

 > > It seems that the bug is stronger in the GNOME desktop, but I've seen, at least once, .gnome-shell-real using an abnormal amount of RAM while in sway (about 800 MiB).
 > 
 > Could you check if it happens in a VM?  That is, you build your GNOME
 > config with ‘guix system vm’, try to do some activity in the VM, and
 > check in top whether ‘gnome-shell’ is growing.

I can try, but last time I did something like that the VM with GNOME was too slow to do anything (this computer only has 4 GiB of RAM).
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