Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

[Peter Viskup <skupko.sk@gmail.com>]

On 02/08/2013 06:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status
> > > Name:   gnome-shell
> > > VmPeak:  3537456 kB
> > > VmSize:  3403068 kB
> > That doesn't show a memory leak.
> Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to
> justify for such an application.
>
> > awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/$(pidof gnome-shell)/status
> > Name:	gnome-shell
> > VmPeak:	 1250636 kB
> > VmSize:	 1190912 kB
> More than 1GB also sounds excessive, so you seem to be suffering from
> the same problem.
>
> Of course, maybe this is not a problem, it is just an artifact of
> gnome-shell sharing a lot of memory with other applications, so it's not
> actually eating up all your RAM.  But this explanation seems unlikely.
>
> I think it deserves a bug report.
>
>
>          Stefan

I just search for gnome3 and memory leaks and found there were some of 
them fixed in latest 3.6 too. Didn't have time and energy search for 
more information.

One for all:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#System_memory_in_use_rises_constantly_.28memory_leak.29_when_using_GNOME_Shell

This probably help somebody of you who do not shutdown desktop/laptop 
every time.
It consumed all my RAM and swap...

--
Peter Viskup