I also can confirm that this issue persists in Ubuntu 20.04 (focal). It's pretty irritating... it's bad enough that all of these Electron- based apps and chromium-based browsers are chewing up ~400-500Mb each. I don't need a silly software management UI doing it, too!
I recognize that gnome-software may not be a default-installed package on Ubuntu 20.04, but it still is widely used (I have several Flatpaks I need for work, and gnome-software offers the ability to easily install and coordinate their updates). Can't some developers at Red Hat and Canonical put their heads together for a few minutes and get this corrected, please? I also will second Meluco's comment. We should not all have to buy new 32Gb laptops just to run a simple productivity workstation. This really needs to get corrected. I am seeing reports of memory leaks in gnome-software going back as far as Ubuntu 16.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616332 Title: gnome-software using hundreds of MB of memory when not in use Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: It seems gnome-software is running in the background all the time. Not a big deal if it was lightweight, but it seems to use hundreds of MB (from smem output): PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS 2291 jan /usr/bin/gnome-software --g 285436 112576 117982 134036 A total of over 400MB in RAM and swap combined. After killing and restarting, it takes "only" a bit over 100MB. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gnome-software 3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Aug 24 09:45:53 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-10 (1382 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) SourcePackage: gnome-software UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-19 (65 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1616332/+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
