On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 22:23 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 18:50 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Looks like GNOME Initiatives could use with some updating as well. > > There are some that are current and some that might need to be > > revisited. For instance: > > > > Document Centric GNOME > > Memory Reduction > > Memory reduction would be a good one to revisit and update. I was > looking at that in frustration today as my machine hit swap and an > Intel driver bug took down my desktop session as a result. It looks > like we’ve gone sufficiently long without focusing on reducing memory > usage that there should be some good low-hanging fruit there. > > (For example, it seems like half the shell search providers persist > in > memory long (indefinitely?) after a shell search is done, at about > 50MB > RSS each.)
There's low-hanging fruit in the shell search providers, certainly. But I don't think they should be running at all: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785380 Switching to a systemd-based session should also allow us to transform some long-running background processes into timer units, freeing some space. Finally, getting rid of the gdm shell session will also free up RAM: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785950 (the duplicate bug has a nonsensical summary) Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
