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

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 40116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  sirgazil <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>
Subject: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:09:57 +0100

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.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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