Another data point: it appears that pressing <enter> in a terminal window (tested both gnome-terminal and qterminal) at a zsh shell prompt (but not a bash shell prompt!) results in GNOME Shell being unresponsive for ~4s at 100% CPU and increasing RSS by ~50MB.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815550 Title: RSS grows without limit, general slowness Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This *may* be an nvidia-specific problem, but the RSS of gnome-shell on my system grows without limit (over a couple of hours it's increased past 10G). At the same time, gnome-shell appears to become progressively less responsive. Restarting gnome-shell (via <Alt><F2> restart) drops shell RSS down to ~400MB and improves system responsiveness a bit. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.30.2-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.20.0+bcachefs.git20190130.d1f70147-1.0-generic 4.20.0 Uname: Linux 4.20.0+bcachefs.git20190130.d1f70147-1-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu20 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Feb 12 13:35:59 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1815550/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp