I also experience the same behavior. I have 8 GB physical and 8 GB swap on my system. Before opening gnome-system-monitor, memory usage was 20% for physical and 0% for swap. After starting gnome-system-monitor. It started to allocate first the physical memory. It took less than two minutes until most physical memory was allocated and swapping started. After 5 minutes, swap was also nearly full. When I stopped gnome-system- monitor it dropped from 97% to 19% physical usage and 85% to 10% swap usage within seconds.
I observed in glances that the Virtual Memory was increasing steadily for gnome-system-monitor. I always keep my system updated and started to observe this behavior last week. It must be a recent change that triggers it. I have encountered this crazy memory allocation also twice when gnome- system-monitor was not open but I don't know what caused it. As the system was unresponsive, I could not properly analyze it. The out of memory killer indicated that it killed "Files" after it became responsive again. At least I can reproduce it consistently when opening gnome-system-monitor. But it seems probable that there is a problem which is further down, e. g. in libraries both used by gnome-system- monitor and nautilus. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2079898 Title: Memory leak on gnome-system-monitor? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/2079898/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
