Much of gnome-shell's memory mappings at start up are due to PulseAudio
gnome-shell-all-mmaps-at-startup.pdf
80% (512MB) of gnome-shell's memory mappings at start-up are due to PulseAudio. This seems excessive.
Memory profile from Google heap profiler attached.
Although this may not be a bug. It might just be reserved address space with very little physical memory impact...?
Edited by Daniel van Vugt