gnome-shell consumes more than 10 GB of memory.
Affected version
- OS Release :
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
- Kernel :
5.19.0-38-generic #39~22.04.1-Ubuntu
- GNOME Shell Version :
GNOME Shell 42.4
- Xwayland Version:
The X.Org Foundation Xwayland Version 22.1.1 (12201001)
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Bug summary
gnome-shell consumes more than 10 GB of memory.
Steps to reproduce
(Not sure if that's the exact reason) Rotate one of the 2 monitors.
What happened
gnome-shell consumes more than 10 GB of memory.
What did you expect to happen
It shouldn't consume this much memory.
Relevant logs, screenshots, screencasts etc.
top - 15:47:39 up 3 days, 21:23, 3 users, load average: 9.29, 8.38, 7.29
Tasks: 874 total, 3 running, 869 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 20.6 us, 6.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 72.2 id, 1.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 63890.8 total, 816.6 free, 46792.2 used, 16282.0 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 1952.0 total, 0.0 free, 1952.0 used. 3132.6 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15992 joseph 20 0 21.4g 13.9g 129580 S 211.8 22.3 2880:09 gnome-shell
Edited by Joseph Lee