Bug 1546302
| Summary: | possible memory leak in Gnome | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Joe Wright <jwright> | ||||
| Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Florian Müllner <fmuellner> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 7.4 | CC: | afox, alanm, bgollahe, dbasant, fmuellner, jkoten, jwright, lsatenstein, mark.crossland, mboisver, mclasen, pgozart, rstrode, setthemfree, sfroemer, tpelka, vanhoof, vbenes, yferszt, yuokada, yzheng, zagar | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | gjs-1.52.5-1.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| : | 1666809 1667994 1669048 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2019-08-06 12:37:16 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 1594286, 1649362, 1656436, 1666809, 1667994, 1669048, 1708741, 1713081, 1717000, 1719819, 1881217, 1881995, 1882009, 1882574, 1882821, 1887741, 1888675, 1888676, 1888678, 1888682 | ||||||
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Here is a way to demonstrate a memory leak. Begin your gome session. Invoke "system" (a gnome utility) that shows memory use by application name. focus on gnome-shell On a fresh logon, the shell will show around 200megs consumed invoke aisleriot a few times and exit Each time aisleriot is invoked, it consumes around 5 megs On exit, the 5 megs do not appear returned to the shell. More simpletest. invoke aisleriot and then firefox and then aisleriot you will find that the gnome-shell memory use is monotonic increasing, even after quitting firefox and aisleriot Other gnome programs cause a similar effect. Programs that do not use gnome-shell (Dropbox), on exit, return all memory that was assigned. Footnote. Is the monotonic memory increase shown by gnome-shell due to the shell or to Aisleriot / firefox, both not releasing memory back to the system? Created attachment 1495165 [details]
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*** Bug 1079940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2044 |
Created attachment 1397168 [details] ps aux output Description of problem: Possible memory leak in Gnome, seems to build up over a few days. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - gnome-shell-3.22.3-17.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: - over a few days, customer environment Steps to Reproduce: 1. Let Gnome run and be used for a few days 2. system eventually boggs down 3. Actual results: - system eventually runs at a crawl Expected results: Additional info: Gnome-shell seems to be the biggest offender here Gnome-shell: (ps aux) 724 2.9 77.3 10705580 6195892 ? Sl Feb05 457:26 /usr/bin/gnome-shell