Gnome 3 memory leak?

Fingel · 2011-08-30 18:59:59

Hey,
Noticed that my memory usage was unusally high.
Restarting the shell fixed it, still not good though.

Just a heads up for anyone using gnome-shell.

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cbowman57 · 2011-08-30 19:20:30

Wow, is that the 32-bit or 64-bit? And how long was the system up without a restart of the shell?

I've noticed similar behavior from time to time, but more pronounced with the 64-bit.

Fingel · 2011-08-30 19:45:33

64 bit, machine was sitting Idle for about 6 days (work computer, been taking some time off...)

cbowman57 · 2011-08-30 19:52:51

Ok, hopefully G-S 3.1.9 will have killed that bug. I've seen the same thing occur on at least 3 different distros with G-S 3.0.1 & .2.

I remember one build I used that was so bad I made a launcher just to run gnome-shell --replace whenever I felt the system get sluggish.

josephk · 2011-10-08 21:01:43

gnome shell memory leak is still present in 3.2 on an intel atom diamondville netbook.
after 3 hours of use it's taking up 280mb of ram!
what to do?

Aventinus · 2011-10-08 21:56:16

Do we know if the drivers are responsible? I use Gnome Shell on Arch64 with the ATI open source drivers and haven't stumbled upon this problem.

Brandon_R · 2011-10-08 22:01:01

Did 3.2 fix this error?

jorchube · 2011-10-08 22:13:16

Brandon_R wrote:

Did 3.2 fix this error?

Yes, as far as I can see on my own systems. (both x86_64)

josephk · 2011-10-09 08:29:28

@Brandon_R, jorchube
not for intel drivers. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1000980
@Everybody:
there should be a fix in 3.2.1 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1000984

jorchube · 2011-10-09 11:56:07

josephk wrote:

@Brandon_R, jorchube
not for intel drivers. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1000980
@Everybody:
there should be a fix in 3.2.1 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1000984

omg, I have an Intel HD3000 on my laptop and I've not noticed it... I'll take a look closer.

smancill · 2011-10-09 22:20:01

Confirming the memory leak in an Intel Atom Netbook. It's taking up 340 MB or RAM.

jose1711 · 2011-11-10 19:37:04

i've also seen that. alt-f2 r helped quite a bit. nvidia binary nvidia 285.05.09-1. jose

bwat47 · 2011-11-11 03:30:18

gnome-shell is known to leak memory and it happens to pretty much everyone. I've never seen it happen to the extent in your screenshot though, that is very, very abnormal. Mine climbs up to around 200mb and sits there.

josephk · 2011-11-12 11:43:26

to me, after 3.2.1 release I'm experiencing stable memory usage ~30mb.
I'd call it fixed.

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simryang · 2012-01-13 04:28:03

I've similiar problem.
My system has Intel I7 860(2.8x4) cpu, 2GB RAM, Geforce GTX 260. Kernel version is 3.1.3-1-ARCH, gnome version is 3.2.1, nvidia version is 290.10.
My gnome-shell uses from 130mb to 2xxmb. Memory usage slightly raises and all of GUI have slightly increasing lag.
Input from mouse and keyboard becomes very slow as time goes by even though CPU and memory is not fully using.
In this case, I should alt-f2 r.

hooluupog · 2012-01-19 09:03:29

I've the similar problem after watching some flash videos in browser. But it works well on windows7. Not only the memory leak problem, but also a bit sluggish with gnome-shell. Everytime i click the top panel menu ,it freezes a few seconds and then the popup menu appears. It isn't smooth enough comared with gnome2, xfce or windows7.

sergio_br2 · 2012-02-02 23:53:05

simryang wrote:

I've similiar problem.
My system has Intel I7 860(2.8x4) cpu, 2GB RAM, Geforce GTX 260. Kernel version is 3.1.3-1-ARCH, gnome version is 3.2.1, nvidia version is 290.10.
My gnome-shell uses from 130mb to 2xxmb. Memory usage slightly raises and all of GUI have slightly increasing lag.
Input from mouse and keyboard becomes very slow as time goes by even though CPU and memory is not fully using.
In this case, I should alt-f2 r.

I've similar problem too... I'm using Gnome 3.2.1, linux-lts 3.0.17-2 (and linux 3.2.2-1 too), Core2 Duo cpu T6600, running on 64 bits, 4 GB RAM, Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07).
The gnome-shell increased from 600 MB and happened the same, alt-f2 and r solves the problem. Sometimes the system freezes, and i can't do ctrl+alt+F1 to change to terminal and reset the system.
Sorry for my english...

sergio_br2 · 2012-02-09 04:22:59

There's a script that allows you to monitor the gnome-shell's memory usage on: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122269
I posted there a chart created from the data collected showing the memory leak.

We know about memory leak issue in gnome (not only on Arch, but also on others distributions), but there aren't any bug confirmed in the bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi? … emory+leak

Has this problem been fixed in the 3.3 branch?

det · 2014-04-29 10:31:24

sergio_br2 wrote:

Has this problem been fixed in the 3.3 branch?

Not even in 3.12.

fsckd · 2014-04-29 13:42:32

det, you know better. Forum Etquette: Old Threads / Necro-Bumping. Closing.

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