On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 05:54:28PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:28:48PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > I have news regarding this bug (or at least I believe this is the same > > bug). > > > > GNOME devs have found a "memory leak" in gnome-shell's garbage > > collection, when related to GJS. They have merged the fix into the > > development branch (GNOME 3.30) and are going to (probably) merge into > > the 3.28 version as well. > > > > https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/ > > Until very recently, this was kind of bearable. But recently, it because > way worse. I rebooted my machine 2 days ago, when gnome-shell was > sucking close to 10GB memory. It's been 2 days, and it's already sucking > 4GB. That's with version 3.30.1-2.
I got a "nice" way to accelerate the process, although I don't know if it's the same root cause: take a screencast (ctrl+alt+shift+R). After a few seconds, gnome-shell memory usage explodes, then terminate the screencast with the same keyboard shortcut, at which point gnome-shell sucks CPU for a while and releases memory... but does not get back to the level it was before you started. After a few screencasts, it got from ~2G of memory usage to ~4G. Mike
