Extreme memory consumption
📦 Version and System
(ins)16:04:19 $ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.38.4
(ins)16:04:46 $ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 3.36.3
(ins)16:04:52 $ cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Zorin
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Zorin OS 16.1"
NAME="Zorin OS"
VERSION="16.1"
ID=zorin
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Zorin OS 16.1"
VERSION_ID="16"
HOME_URL="https://zorin.com/os/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.zorin.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://zorin.com/os/feedback/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://zorin.com/legal/privacy/"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal
(ins)16:05:22 $ cat /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/zorin-desktop-icons@zorinos.com/metadata.json
{
"description": "Adds icons to the desktop. Fork of the original Desktop Icons extension, with several enhancements.",
"name": "Zorin Desktop Icons",
"shell-version": [
"3.38",
"40.beta",
"40"
],
"uuid": "zorin-desktop-icons@zorinos.com"
}
📜 Description of the Issue
Every few days the memory usage of ding.js
increases to more than 20 GB and stays that high. It is not clear what causes this. I do nothing special at the time and use gnome without any special extensions.
I post the bug here because I couldn't find a project page nor the source code of gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons
. According to the description it is a "fork of the original Desktop Icons extension, with several enhancements." (see above). The project is listed on https://launchpad.net/~zorinos/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages.