[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1672297] Re: gnome-shell uses lots of memory, and grows over time

3952 KiB extra memory usage by gnome-shell when I change window of kitty (terminal). Two megabytes for one press of alt-tab! 﫣 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gjs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1672297

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1672297] Re: gnome-shell uses lots of memory, and grows over time

Regarding continually increasing Pss_Shmem, diffing numa_maps has these... Can these glfw mappings be reason for the increased memory usage? 59d20d348000 default file=/usr/bin/gnome-shell anon=1 dirty=1 active=0 N0=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 59d20d988000 default heap anon=26945 dirty=26945 active=0

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1672297] Re: gnome-shell uses lots of memory, and grows over time

I have 32 GiB RAM. Oct 03 16:21:10 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 448186 (gnome- shell) total-vm:17570844kB, anon-rss:336828kB, file-rss:2548kB, shmem- rss:7665392kB, UID:500 pgtables:28128kB oom_score_adj:200 Running with gnome-shell 43.0 and gjs-1.74.0: 21d6240-7ffe2b9a2000 ---p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1806257] Re: gnome-shell excessive logging cannot bind to x11-unix

gnome-shell's failure to bind can also be caused by namespace.conf settings, currently gdm/gnome-shell etc do not take this into account, breaking gdm which worked fine without wayland. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/namespace.conf.5.html Now, if you have in that file: /tmp