Hi sirgazil, sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email protected]> 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’.
