gnome-software sometimes has high memory usage

Submitted by Branko Grubic (bitlord)

Description

This is maybe related to bug #783662 but I see often after boot gnome-software process and packagekitd running in the background using which I consider a lot of memory while idle. This is case when I never started it during this session and also have no updates checking enabled (which is why I think this could be related to that bug report).

My system currently has 5901M memory reported by 'free -m' and after 4h of uptime packagekitd and gnome-software still running:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND bgrubic 2318 0.0 1.5 1111172 95144 tty2 Sl+ 17:18 0:02 _ /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service root 1654 0.3 2.2 950220 135628 ? Ssl 17:17 0:50 /usr/libexec/packagekitd

Running: PackageKit-1.1.6-2.fc26.x86_64 gnome-software-3.24.3-1.fc26.x86_64

Is there a way I can provide more information?

Thanks.

Edited Jan 08, 2021 by Philip Withnall