Hi all,

Has any of you noticed that gnome-shell leaks memory under Gnome 3.22.2 on Debian9?

I have thinkpad with 4GB RAM and 7GB SWAP and the amount of memory the gnome-shell consumes keeps rising as shown on the top command.

Does any of you has the same problem? is there a solution to it? I had it with gnome 3.14 and thought it will be fixed on the release of debian9 ?!

any help would be appreciated,
thnx

would be nice to give us more details, at least the configuration of it. top is not the best tool to detect memory leak.
here: https://launchpad.net/gnome-shell you can report bugs.

Hi,

I upgraded from 8.9 by modifying the sources.list file and changing jessie by stretch, and it was still happening on debian 8,
tried different DM such as sddm and lightdm and it still continue to consume more RAM, Alt F2 r frees the gnome-shell extra RAM usage.
I use the dark theme, have the Weather applet running, firefox 54.

What exactly you need to know regarding the configurations? which is the best tool to watch for memory usage?

p.s. I noticed in the gnome-system-monitor that there is another gnome-shell process owned by Debian-gdm but it does not leak memory.

Also I use intel graphic driver, could it leak memory? is it possible at all to use nvidia driver?

Thnx,

could it be a problem with my hardware?
I have 3rd generation i7 intel processor on E530 thinkpad, it is considered old laptop but it is quite good !

I have the same problem on a T400
Debian 8 was fine. Since the upgrade I have constant freezes.
How can I find out what is wrong?

please do not hide other threads. I don't think your problem (constant freezes) is the same as the original issue.

I'm still not sure if memory was really leaked at all.
I don't really know what's going on (because I can't see your linux), but any app may eat more and more ram as it is working on something, this may or may not mean memory related issues. Also you may need to learn how memory handled at all to understand why it may happen.
Probably www.linuxatemyram.com will give you some additional insight.

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memory leak is when memory is not freed and not pointed to by a pointer, like in C programming language.

I think it is one of the shell extensions I have installed , I disabled all of them and it is better now.

thnx

but you are not able to check if that memory is really in use or leaked (there is a pointer or there is no such pointer).

if gnome-shell usage of RAM was climbing continuously, and never get bellow the max it reaches, and using Alt F2 r releases all these amounts of RAM then it is very likely leaked by one of the extensions I had ...!