Memory in gnome-shell does not get freed quickly because of JavaScript garbage collection. Memory usage will tend to grow slowly and plateau. Significant drops are rare, but I would not consider it a leak unless you see growth continuing above 500MB. Starting at 200MB is normal.
If you are still concerned about the memory use then please also check to see if you get the same behaviour with no extensions at all. -- 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/1946970 Title: Memory leak in gnome-shell after lock and unlock the screen Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When the screen is locked and unlocked extra ~100MB memory remains in use and never freed up. After each lock/unlock action additional 10-20MB will be used, and the memory consumption of gnome-shell grows and grows. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10 Package: gnome-shell 40.5-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-18.18-generic 5.13.14 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Oct 13 14:06:17 2021 DisplayManager: gdm3 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-06 (7 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 40.5-1ubuntu2 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/1946970/+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
