The main system which I use for work is Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. I use gnome with many extensions (see above). At the beginning the memory usage of gnome-shell is ~177MB. (Interesting that in another machine, which is a laptop and has exactly the same system and almost the same hardware, gnome-shell uses ~150MB at the beginning) During my work (using e.g. Octave, LyX, Chrome) the memory usage of gnome-shell is increasing continuously, but when I restart gnome-shell with "Alt+F2 r <ENTER>", after some time the memory usage doesn't drop to the original value, but ramains at a higher value, which is approx. 200-250MB. This value is slowly increasing. I assume that there is a memory leak somewhere in gnome-shell or gjs (or somewhere else), but only a portion of the leaked memory can be freed with "Alt+F2 r <ENTER>". I tried to watch what causes the jumps in memory usage, but coudn't figure out it. Sometimes e.g. locking-unlocking the screen, but sometime it seems to be random.
-- 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 grows when locking/unlocking the screen Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New 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
