Re: excessive memory use by several gnome programs

[piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com>]

On 05/10/2021 16:24, L Dimov wrote:
> My fans were going crazy after restart, as usual, so I finally looked at
> the System Monitor to find that with no programs started by me,
> gnome-contacts-search-provider was using the most, reaching up to 1.8
> GB. All 8 CPUs were running on 99 to 100%. After several minutes it
> dropped to nothing. Is that normal? The computer sounds like a jet
> taking off.
>
> At present, evolution-addressbok-factory is using 478 MB of memory,
> consistently for several tens of minutes (and still the biggest user
> among the processes. Looks like a lot to me - is that normal?
>
> I am on a Dell Lattitude 5490 laptop, 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, intel core
> i5 vPro 8t gen, 2-3 years old.
> Thanks!
> Luben

I don't think that's unusual for Gnome. As you said, CPU went up and
down again, so it's probably not a bug causing CPU to be pinned down
indefinitely in the loop. Gnome was doing something and it finished.

Consider using other desktop environments which respect your computer
resources.

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With kindest regards, Piotr.

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