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