Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi sirgazil,
>
> sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@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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