On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:12:30PM +1100, Timothy Allen wrote: > Thank you for working on keeping GNOME packages up-to-date in Debian, and > thank > you in particular for packaging GNOME Software, which makes it easy to keep on > top of package updates, especially for Testing where they happen regularly. > > I have a low-end laptop with 2GB of RAM, and I usually run GNOME 3 because > it's > highly polished and light-weight enough that I can still run a browser and a > few terminals to get work done. The one exception is gnome-software, which > frequently claims 15% or more of my RAM whenever it checks for updates. Right > now, it's sitting at ~18%, or 335MB resident — that may not be much on other > computers, but for my little laptop it's often enough to get my browser OOM- > killed while I'm in the middle of something. > > Is there some way I can make GNOME Software stop checking for updates, or at > least stop holding (presumably) the entire package list in memory after the > update-check is complete? > > From GNOME Software's hamburger menu, I picked "Update Preferences" and > disabled "Automatic Updates" and "Automatic Update Notifications", but that > doesn't seem to stop it from checking for updates (what seems like) every time > I wake my laptop up. > > I also went into the "Software & Updates" application, and set "Automatically > check for updates" to "Never". Still no change. > > Previously, I've just sent the gnome-software process a SIGTERM and that > cleaned it up until the next time I logged in, but more recently it's been > automatically restarted. > I'm also noticing gnome-software taking up way too much memory, while not doing anything. 2GB resident seems unreasonable, so this isn't limited to low-end hardware.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jcristau 42111 0.0 11.9 4077948 1927496 ? Sl 2020 12:29 /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service Cheers, Julien
