Bug 814872
Summary: | gnome-shell 3.4.1 Memory leak | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jayes <johan.spee> |
Component: | gnome-shell | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 17 | CC: | maxamillion, otaylor, pbrady, samkraju, stuart, walters |
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Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 06:30:14 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Jayes
2012-04-20 22:18:06 UTC
PS. Disabling all extensions makes no difference: A 100% default gnome-shell shows a rapidly growing memory footprint. Steps to Reproduce: 1. log in 2. wait a day, doing nothing Actual results: memory use grows by 1G/day on idle desktop Expected results: memory use stays constant when desktop is idle. Additional info: Cinnamon does the same thing, so it must be a common library component. I just finished testing cinammon (leaving my desktop idle for 2 days and using my laptop), and here is what top shows (gnome-shell results are similar, but I didn't copy them): 10149 stuart 20 0 2630m 1.3g 9460 R 7.6 65.5 320:57.95 cinnamon 10395 stuart 20 0 866m 153m 12m S 2.3 7.6 372:43.86 firefox 14267 stuart 20 0 816m 114m 10m S 0.0 5.7 27:52.91 thunderbird For both gnome-shell and cinammon, if you leave them running long enough, they will die (presumably from oom killer). They do restart admirably - and then the workstation is much faster! Workaround: When memory use gets out of hand, log out and log back in. Would it help to do a kill -11 on gnome-shell with resident mem > 1G? I don't think so, we really need a heap analyzer, not a stack trace, but just asking. Is there a memory allocation syscall we could trace? Gnome-fallback does not have the problem. No noticable memory growth after a week in fallback mode. Only gnome-shell and cinnamon. After about 2 days (at which point it is consuming 2G), gnome-shell goes away. Virtual memory use then goes down to normal. It was not killed by OOM, and nothing is logged in messages that I can find. Next time I am around when it dies, I will look in dmesg. Sometimes, gnome-shell will restart itself after dying. But usually, you are left with a bunch of windows open that you can't navigate between. I can switch to a text console, but I am unclear on how to start a window manager for the GUI from a text console. This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 977387 *** |