Il giorno mer 18 mar 2020 alle ore 15:43 sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> ha scritto:
> ---- On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:19:37 -0500 sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> > wrote ---- > > Hello, > > > > I've been experiencing the following behavior for months, but didn't > have the time to report anything. > > > > When I boot, a fresh GNOME session uses around 1.3 GiB (I don't know if > this is normal). > > > > After several hours of work, the desktop starts feeling somewhat slow > (e.g. when launching apps, switching work spaces). When this happens, RAM > usage is around 3 GiB (of 4 GiB in total). If I continue working, RAM usage > continues to go up little by little, and I have to reboot at some point, > because memory is not released and things become slower. > > > > When RAM usage is very high, closing all applications reduces usage to > 2 GiB approx. (which I think is too high). If I log out and then log back > in, those 2 GiB are still in use (which I think is odd). > > > > Here are some screenshots of resource usage reported by the "top" > program. GDM looks suspicious: > > > > • RAM usage after several hours of work with the applications I use > every day still running: > > > > > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-all-apps-2020-02-23.png > > > > • RAM usage after closing all applications: > > > > > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-all-apps-closed-2020-02-23.png > > > > • RAM usage after logging out and then login back in: > > > > > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/gnome-session-after-hours-of-work-re-log-in-2020-02-23.png > > > > > > I decided to try sway to see if I had the same problem there, but I > think it is something related to GDM+GNOME. In sway, a fresh session uses > around 700 MiB; after hours of work (using the same applications I use > every day), RAM usage stays between 2 and 2.5 GiB; and when I exit all > applications, RAM seems to be released ok (descends to 900 MiB approx.). > > > > I just reported this problem to the issue tracker: > http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40116 > > I remember that the Gnome people fixed a memory leak some months ago It had to do with a glitch in the layout of pointers to instances in the Gnome object system that made it difficult for the garbage collector to reach exhausted references Now I don't remember when this was and what version of Gnome was involved, I'm being a bit vague, I know But if the version of Gnome in Guix is not recent, there's a good chance that you're running into that bug.
