Gnome shell memory leak in F16 TC2 ?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 26 19:40:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:09 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Pratyush Sahay
> <pratyush.a.sahay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Have a fully updated F16 TC2. Gnome-shell's memory footprint is ballooning
> > like anything, making the GUI sluggish. Observed especially after running
> > system for long hours or when unseen notifications accumulate alot in the
> > bottom panel. Today, in 7hrs it jumped from 40-50 MB to 430 MB.
> >
> > Doing a Alt+F2 and 'r' brings gnome-shell back to normal levels. Guess
> > people have seen it in F15 too earlier [1]. i didnt experience it much with
> > F15 though.
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726978
> 
> gnome-shell version?
> 
> There was a bad leak in 3.2.0 which is fixed in 3.2.1

And are you using any customizations - extensions, alternate themes,
etc?
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