At any given time: immediately after reboot, immediately after restarting gnome-shell (alt+F2 --> "r"), and during regular use gnome- shell is consuming at least 4GB RAM. I'm happy to provide a memory profile but I don't know how to do that so I need help.
# ps auxwww | grep gnome-shell gdm 1595 0.0 1.2 3696204 211144 tty1 Sl+ Dec08 0:23 /usr/bin/gnome-shell <my user> 2176 0.4 2.6 4063428 431096 tty2 Sl+ Dec08 3:01 /usr/bin/gnome-shell # ps -p 1595,2176 -Fl F S USER PID PPID C PRI NI P SZ WCHAN RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD 0 S gdm 1595 1559 0 80 0 * 924307 poll_s 211648 0 Dec08 tty1 00:00:24 /usr/bin/gnome-shell 0 S <my user> 2176 2060 0 80 0 * 1017742 poll_s 433852 1 Dec08 tty2 00:03:36 /usr/bin/gnome-shell -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1672297 Title: gnome-shell uses lots of memory, and grows over time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1672297/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
