Gnome shell memory leak in F16 TC2 ?

Pratyush Sahay pratyush.a.sahay at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 01:54:51 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> rpm -qa | grep gnome-shell output:
gnome-shell-3.2.1-1.fc16.i686
gnome-shell-extension-common-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
gnome-shell-extension-gpaste-1.6-1.fc16.noarch
gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch
gnome-shell-extension-native-window-placement-3.2.0-1.fc16.noarch


> And are you using any customizations - extensions, alternate themes,
> etc?
>
>
Just tried running system with all extensions uninstalled. gnome-shell still
ballooning up. Using the default Adwaita theme.


--
Regards,
Pratyush Sahay
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