Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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I can easily confirm that gnome-shell 3.36 in Ubuntu 20.04 uses 2x more
memory than gnome-shell 3.38 in Debian testing.
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I think I know the reason for the high memory usage, it's the Ubuntu
font. Try to change the fonts in gnome-tweaks → Fonts. Change the
Interface Text, Document Text and Legacy Window Titles to Sans Regular
and Sans Bold, respectively. This is the default sans font.
I didn't try to pinpoint which o
Thanks for the bug report. There are not currently any known leaks in
gnome-shell so most likely this is something unique to your machine.
The first unusual thing I notice here is a lot of error messages about:
gnome-shell[52032]: Error getting desktop unix mode: Gio.IOErrorEnum:
Error when getti
Actually there are a few known leaks (although most people won't ever
experience them) so please do check this list:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=gnome-shell-leak
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Thanks. That shows gnome-shell is using 392MB resident set size (RSS):
USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
damir 4144 9.1 3.2 4681844 392216 ? Rsl 09:48 0:52
/usr/bin/gnome-shell
The 4.6GB is virtual address space (VSZ). Not memory usage. Th
everything is fine now. I did what Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) suggested
and removed wakatime, there were no extensions installed in gnom the
memory fell down to normal levels, and the lag when switching, typing
went away.
thank you, guys.
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