Note to self and others: I suspect using HEAP_PROFILE_MMAP=true with Google Heap Profiler would help here.
https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/heapprofile.html -- 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/1823544 Title: Unreasonable NVIDIA GPU VRAM usage on gnome-shell Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB Ubuntu: 19.04, Kernel Linux luky-pc 5.0.0-8-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 12 21:58:11 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux NVIDIA driver version: 418.56 Display settings: BenQ XL2411Z, 144Hz monitor, 1920x1080p I have noticed this strange behavior only on gnome-shell where the overall gnome-shell desktop VRAM usage was taking up to 1GB of GPU VRAM which does not happen on other desktops, or on Windows, happens after some hours of normal desktop usage Even the system RAM increases a lot during normal usage, but remains acceptable This behaviour can be observed by using "nvidia-smi" a tool from the NVIDIA proprietary driver gnome-shell VRAM usage on a cold start: 139MB, + 9 MB X.org VRAM usage on cold start: 48MB + 18MB Total: 214MB gnome-shell VRAM usage after some hours of normal usage: 445MB + 83 MB X.org VRAM usage after some hours of normal usage: 244MB + 18MB Total: 800MB On windows or other desktops the GPU VRAM usage remains the same To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1823544/+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
