GDM memory leaks

[Michael Cronenworth]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply.

On 09/14/2015 03:39 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> It is a non-ideal design. There is technical explanation in [1] (in
> particular, comment #20) about why this was changed (TL;DR for running
> X unprivileged), and the work that would be required to fix this.
>
> We also need to bring back the nice transition between gnome-shell and
> gdm (which disappeared due to this issue).
>
> [1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747339

Yes, I understand the X server is now started non-root, but non-root X is functional 
without keeping the gdm user session around for non-Gnome sessions.

> Are you using NVIDIA's proprietary driver? So far, all of the excessive
> memory usage complaints I've seen have been from people using that
> driver, which we obviously can't help with. :/
>
> If you're using an open source driver, then please file a bug report.

The system is using the binary driver, but it is the only one that I leave on for 
extended periods of time. I can try and replicate the issue on other systems with 
open drivers now that I have a bug report[1] to follow.