Bug 704196

Summary: Gnome-shell taking a lot of memory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mathias Teugels <mathias>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mathias Teugels 2011-05-12 12:06:00 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently my laptop has had uptime:
14:01:37 up 1 day, 23:04,  6 users,  load average: 1.20, 1.33, 1.37

But gnome-shell is taking a whopping 920M in RAM, making it my biggest memory hungry component at the moment.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.0.1-4.fc15 (x86_64)


How reproducible:
Just work a lot in gnome-shell (perhaps launching big memory programs triggers this, like gimp with large images, or firefox with 100+ tabs, ...)


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start system
2. Run on it
3.
  
Actual results:
Large amounts of memory usage


Expected results:
Less amounts of memory usage (I have no problems with a 500M memory usage for gnome-shell)


Additional info:
If it's required for more information, I'd gladly help

Comment 1 Callum Lerwick 2011-05-16 18:48:14 UTC
I'm having similar problems. Both gnome-shell and Xorg seem to like to bloat up over time and eventually make the system unusable until you logout/restart. I already gave details on bug #672117

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