From janneke@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 12:08:29 2020 Received: (at 40116) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Mar 2020 02:35:38 +0000 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57003) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jIaU8-00061e-NQ for 40116@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:08:29 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIaU2-0002Qg-7L; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:08:22 -0400 Received: from [2001:980:1b4f:1:42d2:832d:bb59:862] (port=47938 helo=dundal.peder.onsbrabantnet.nl) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jIaU1-0005pE-3s; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:08:21 -0400 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 40116@debbugs.gnu.org, sirgazil Subject: Re: bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process References: <170ee024512.c9ac6ac476703.6325608537898017895@zoho.com> <87a74d8zsq.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:08:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87a74d8zsq.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:09:57 +0100") Message-ID: <87ftdrta8e.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 40116 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:08:29 -0000 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi sirgazil, > > sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix skribis: > >> I can't use GNOME anymore because of the problem I explained in the foll= owing thread: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00206.html >> >> On recent system upgrades, the problem got worse. Before, I could get to= the end of the day despite the leak; but now it takes around 3 hours for t= he .gnome-shell-real process run by the gdm user to eat the remaining RAM. > > Ouch. > >> It seems that the bug is stronger in the GNOME desktop, but I've seen, a= t least once, .gnome-shell-real using an abnormal amount of RAM while in sw= ay (about 800 MiB). > > Could you check if it happens in a VM? That is, you build your GNOME > config with =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99, try to do some activity in = the VM, and > check in top whether =E2=80=98gnome-shell=E2=80=99 is growing. That looks like an upstream problem https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/64 are we going to investigate backporting a fix? janneke --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.com