GDM memory use

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 3 04:54:39 UTC 2015


On 06/03/15 10:48, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> $ a=0; ps axfu | grep ^gdm| awk '{print $6}' | \
>   (while read x ; do a=$(( a + x )) ; done ; echo $a )
> 400760
>
> Does anyone else notice that gdm's session takes up 300-400MB of RAM?  I typically defend GNOME, but this is kind of ridiculous.

I show 359852 while a system running sddm shows 10732

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