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#1 2019-09-28 16:03:06

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
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Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

Hi there,

I am running gnome 3.34 on an Intel i3-5010U with on chip graphics. ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions is empty, it is pure out of the box gnome.

I am seeing a memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34. Need to restart gnome every few hours otherwise it consumes all my ram.

Is anyone else having this issue?

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#2 2019-09-28 19:01:47

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
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Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

Looking at standard error, I am getting the following message hundreds of times

dbus-daemon[2681]: [session uid=1000 pid=2681] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker1' requested by ':1.65' (uid=1000 pid=3016 comm="/usr/lib/tracker-miner-fs ")
dbus-daemon[2681]: [session uid=1000 pid=2681] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1'

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#3 2019-09-28 19:43:48

Swiggles
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Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

That's interesting. Could you please provide your journal?
Maybe related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/issues/6

Fyi I do not see the same behavior in gnome, but it still looks like a bad bug when it is leaking memory left and right.

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#4 2019-09-30 16:32:40

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
Posts: 22

Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by journal here.

Also, despite my best efforts, I can't seem to disable all the gnome trackers, so I can't figure out if that is what is causing the issue.

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#5 2019-09-30 17:07:05

2ManyDogs
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Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

danielbarter wrote:

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by journal here.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Journal


How to post. A sincere effort to use modest and proper language and grammar is a sign of respect toward the community.

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#6 2019-09-30 18:26:41

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
Posts: 22

Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

Oh thanks!

Here is the journal since my last boot: I have had to kill gnome twice: https://gist.github.com/danielbarter/cf … 9ea3321840

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#7 2019-10-02 19:19:37

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
Posts: 22

Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

OK, since this seems non trivial, I have opened an issue on the gnome-shell gitlab:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1740

Will keep this thread updated incase others are having a similar issue.

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#8 2019-10-03 07:30:15

glitsj16
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Registered: 2015-04-26
Posts: 116

Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

FYI, if you want to temporarily disable all trackers to see if that changes anything you have a few options. Either copy all tracker-related .desktop files from /etc/xdg/autostart to your ~/.config/autostart and add a 'X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false' line to all of them. Or you could even sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/tracker. I've been using GNOME for ages without trackers, never use them. Adding 'NoExtract = etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-*.desktop usr/bin/tracker' has the same effect permanently. It would be interesting to see if disabling trackers has any effects on the issue observed.

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#9 2019-10-31 21:20:37

danielbarter
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Registered: 2016-02-08
Posts: 22

Re: Memory leak in gnome-shell 3.34?

So the gnome ticket didn't really lead anywhere, but making tracker non executable for root did stop the leaks, so I guess the issue is solved for now? Thank glitsj16!

Last edited by danielbarter (2019-10-31 21:21:30)

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