The test system was 19.10 in virtualbox. I removed almost every extensions, except for the built in ones (ubuntu dock, ubuntu appindicator, etc.). Gnome-shell uses ~200kB at the beginning. If I lock the screen and unlock it, the memory usage jumps to ~210kB. Repeatedly doing this, the memory usage is increasing. Similarly, suspending the system and wakeing it up also cause a jump in the memory usage, which remains there permanently. After manually reset gnome-shell (Alt+F2 r) the memory usage falls back to ~200kB.
What is the theoretical memory usage of gnome-shell? When I reset it, the memory usage is ~90kB for a couple of second, and it grows back to ~200kB. It already happened that the memory usage at the beginning of the gnome session was very low (~80kB), and grew very slowly (couple of minutes with countinuous work, launching programs, browsering the web) until it reached the approx. 200kB usage. It is very suspecious. -- 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/1850201 Title: memory usage is growing over time Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Many times after logging in gnome-shell uses 600-800kB of memory, and also slows down quite a bit (e.g., 20-30 seconds waiting for login). Only after multiple resets (Alt+F2 r) drops the memory usage below 200kB. I use my computer mainly for work, and the above phenomenon is quite disturbing. After a couple of hours of work memory usage is growing over 400kB again, and sometimes the reset (Alt+F2 r) doesn't help either. My system is Ubuntu 18.04.3 Gnome 3.28.2, but the newest Ubuntu also behaves similarly. This is an old issue, it was present in 18.04, 18.10, 19.04 and now in 19.10. I use three computers, and all of them suffer with this problem. Anyone can check this with the "gnome-shell memory monitor" gnome-shell extension. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-32.34~18.04.2-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: communitheme:ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Oct 28 20:28:38 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-04 (297 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) 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/1850201/+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
