Thanks. In my experience virtual memory increases are often related to
thread leaks (because each one requires megabytes of stack range), or
related to integrated graphics leaks, or related to other memory mapping
leaks like memory mapped files.

We can check for thread leaks by simply watching:

  grep Threads /proc/`pidof gnome-shell`/status

And we can check for memory mapping leaks by watching:

  wc -l /proc/`pidof gnome-shell`/maps

As for integrated graphics leaks, that might be harder or it might show
up in the above command. Are there any tools for probing the M3's GPU
stats?


** Summary changed:

- Ubuntu 25.10 uses increasingly lots of memory
+ gnome-shell leaks virtual memory on arm64

** Summary changed:

- gnome-shell leaks virtual memory on arm64
+ gnome-shell 49~rc leaks virtual memory on arm64

** Package changed: ubuntu => gnome-shell (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: gnome-shell-leak

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