[Gnome 3] Increasing memory usage of gnome-shell

Arjann · 2011-04-09 10:24:08

I observe a increasing memory usage of gnome-shell, Starting off at about 70mb of memory on login it increasingly rises.

Yesterday, after approximately 6 hours until shutdown, it grown up to 260 mb of memory according to system-monitor.

Is this expected/normal behaviour?

Kirodema · 2011-04-10 13:19:19

I have the same problem.
Simply restart the gnome-shell by "Alt+F2 > r > <Enter>" and it should be at 70MB again

sorcix · 2011-04-12 21:23:09

After an uptime of 5 hours, gnome-shell is now using 1.4GiB of memory. This can't be normal.

pntruongan · 2011-04-23 19:07:17

I'm experiencing this too, and have to resorted to gnome-shell frequently restarting as an annoying fix.

Ramses de Norre · 2011-04-23 20:08:30

Well hello, memory leak

Report this upstream.

pntruongan · 2011-04-24 06:05:13

Aren't there any known upstream report yet? I would be surprise if this memory leak slip under their nose for all those time.

frnc · 2011-05-02 06:05:22

Maybe it is not related at all, but KDE's Okular (their evince) has a very similar problem. As long as you use it (to view for example some big pdf files, and it does not matter if you exit the program), xorg bloats slowly and can end up using all your ram. It is a long-standing and controversial bug; recently it has turned out that the problem might have nothing to do with the application per se, and instead proprietary drivers like nvidia (see the last comment in the thread: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177213), might be the ones to blame.
So now I am seeing the same phenomenon with gnome-shell (nvidia driver loaded), and I wonder whether there is a relationship between the two.

Revo2000 · 2011-05-02 12:05:08

frnc wrote:

Maybe it is not related at all, but KDE's Okular (their evince) has a very similar problem. As long as you use it (to view for example some big pdf files, and it does not matter if you exit the program), xorg bloats slowly and can end up using all your ram. It is a long-standing and controversial bug; recently it has turned out that the problem might have nothing to do with the application per se, and instead proprietary drivers like nvidia (see the last comment in the thread: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177213), might be the ones to blame.
So now I am seeing the same phenomenon with gnome-shell (nvidia driver loaded), and I wonder whether there is a relationship between the two.

No relationship at all ... i'm using an old Intel 945GM with "xf86-video-intel" Driver and have the exact same problem.

Restarting Gnome-Shell seems to work but why it happens in the first place ??? ... hope that a major update will fix this.

graysky · 2011-05-03 00:46:29

Hmm... I've been logged in for 5 hours.

I have the following in my ~/.bashrc

alias memrss='while read command percent rss; do if [[ "${command}" != "COMMAND" ]]; then rss="$(bc <<< "scale=2;${rss}/1024")"; fi; printf "%-26s%-8s%s\n" "${command}" "${percent}" "${rss}"; done < <(ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem,rss | head -n 11)'

When I first logged in, gnome-shell was using 88 meg. After 5 hours:

$ memrss 
COMMAND                   %MEM    RSS
firefox                   2.7     219.03
gnome-shell               1.8     144.49
mpd                       0.5     40.73
Xorg                      0.5     40.45
nautilus                  0.3     31.91
python2                   0.3     29.70
python2                   0.3     27.36
plugin-containe           0.3     26.55
awn-applet                0.2     18.01
gnome-terminal            0.2     17.43

jasonwryan · 2011-05-07 05:11:44

Moved to Applications & Desktop Environments

adlight · 2011-05-21 20:40:31

I have the same issue. I usually don't shut down, just suspend. after a while gnome 3 memory usage becomes really big. alt+f2>r>enter puts it back to normal.

jorel1981 · 2011-08-09 00:25:22

Yes I have the same problem.. at first i haven't realized but after 10 days of uptime gnome 3 got real slow, key-bindings not working and real slow firefox were the first symptoms... then i rebooted and everything looks normal but since then i have the problem every 3 o 4 hours of uptime.. then i realized that "alt F2 --> r" solved my problem, but it's real annoying.

graysky · 2011-08-09 19:56:42

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654269

jorel1981 · 2011-08-10 00:27:16

Ok, so there isn't a solution yet..

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