Memroy invasion

[Andre Robatino]

Patrick Dupre <pdupre <at> gmx.com> writes:

> Running only firefox, htop indicates: an occupation of 14.6 of the 
> memory and of 11.5% for gnome-shell (actually 1.4 G/ 3G of RAM).
> This slows down the machine without clear explanation.
> Actually, it becomes a lot worst as soon as I run xmgrace for example.
> I run fc21
> Of course, if I kill firefox, the memory occupation is gone, but I
> still keep the 11.5% of gnome-shell while only one gnome-terminal is open.
> (I do not run ant thing, only the OS runs some stuff).
> 
> From top:
> 2468 pdupre    20   0 2113872 351616  58956 S   3.3 11.5   7:20.44
gnome-shell                            
> 3205 pdupre    20   0 1655876 436136  95340 S   2.0 14.3  19:28.00 firefox 
> 
> kiB Mem :  3054792 total,   214252 free,  1071044 used,  1769496 buff/cache

You can restart gnome-shell any time with Alt-F2 "r" Enter, which will
temporarily reduce its memory usage. You probably would only have to do this
once or twice a day. There's an open bug for gnome-shell's memory usage:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960381

One of the things that aggravates it is RPMFusion's
gnome-shell-extension-weather extension, in case you're using that. There's
a Fedora extension gnome-shell-extension-openweather in testing which works
better including using less memory.