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: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  sirgazil <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>
Subject: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:08:17 +0200

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi sirgazil,
>
> sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> I can't use GNOME anymore because of the problem I explained in the following thread:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00206.html
>>
>> On recent system upgrades, the problem got worse. Before, I could get to the end of the day despite the leak; but now it takes around 3 hours for the .gnome-shell-real process run by the gdm user to eat the remaining RAM.
>
> Ouch.
>
>> 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.

That looks like an upstream problem

    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/64

are we going to investigate backporting a fix?

janneke

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