Thanks for your efforts... heaptrack_gui is telling me the largest peak allocation location is either 60MB or 106MB, depending on what tab you look at. So that's not evident of any leaks in the heap.
If your RSS was 1.6GB then that is still evident of a major leak or bloat. The fact that heaptrack can't find that memory tells me it's not in the heap. Most likely mmap'd for something like texture allocation. You'd need to use a tool that can monitor all mmaps at the lowest level, something like HEAP_PROFILE_ONLY_MMAP=1 with 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/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
