GDM memory leaks

[Michael Cronenworth]

Why is GDM kept around for Gnome logins? Is there a way to disable this "parent" GDM 
process?

Over the course of a few days the GDM user process of gnome-shell balloons in memory 
usage from very small to very large. The following stats were produced on a box with 
a 5 day uptime and 8 GB of RAM.

   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
  1051 gdm       20   0 3024276 1.513g  23336 S   0.0 19.4   0:45.92 gnome-shell
  1594 mcronen+  20   0 2484876 469104  51276 S   3.0  5.7  47:02.37 gnome-shell

This is a recurring theme[1]. Are there known fixes? (Only in Gnome Shell 3.18+?)

Michael


[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196190