since the upgrade to precise and switch from gnome2 to gnome-shell i have noticed also another disturbing behavior. at the work i use up to 16 workspaces in order to keep mailer, browser, programming terminals with vim, terminals for latex and pdf viewers apart. and i logout only rarely, mostly when reboots are required by the updates. just looking at top, the memory consumption of gnome-shell gradually increases and virtual sizes well beyond 2 GB (!) are not unusual after some days... another thing is that there is quite visible slowdown if many windows/terminals/apps are open. opening several 10 terminals, a few Mathematica frontends and a few pdf viewers (my typical load) makes opening another terminal take as long as 5 seconds. if gnome-shell is targeted at undemanding casual users with widows like customs of having one, two windows open, then this is fine. but gnome2 had no such issues, even with compiz running...
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