I don't know whether a problem I have is related to this issue or not. On one of my machines which has been upgraded over several years and is now running 19.10 just one of the configured users is seeing a dramatic leak in gnome-shell, even when nothing is happening on the UI. Immediately after logging on using the Ubuntu selection from the logon screen gnome shell shows as using about 134MB. From there it climbs at about 300MB per hour and after a few hours the machine starts using swap and performance grinds to a crawl. This happens even if the user logs on and then the machine is left completely alone. Logout and back in frees all the memory. A test user I have configured sees no such problem. I have uninstalled all extensions apart from the system ones, disabled all the system ones and reset all the gnome settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/ to no avail. Also I have removed ~/.local/share/gnome-shell and allowed it to recreate it. I can't see anything obvious in the log. It must be something in my settings that is triggering it but I have run out of ideas on what to try.
-- 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/1856516 Title: Excessive memory usage by gnome-shell in 19.10 Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The gnome-shell process on my system is currently at 5473M VIRT 1224M RSS 566M SHR; this seems a bit excessive. This session has been up for >4 days with a number of suspend/resume cycles in there, so this might be a slow leak? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.34.1+git20191024-1ubuntu1~19.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0+bcachefs.git20191120.71cdaa7a-1-generic 5.3.10 Uname: Linux 5.3.0+bcachefs.git20191120.71cdaa7a-1-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Dec 16 16:50:10 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-29 (109 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 bcachefs (20190828) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en PATH=(custom, user) SHELL=/usr/bin/fish XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.1+git20191107-1ubuntu1~19.10.1 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/1856516/+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