Re: excessive memory use by several gnome programs
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:24:41PM +0000, 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.
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I think that might be related to tracker. This is an indexer of the GNOME desktop.
Initially this will use some noticable cpu cycles but once it indexed all files in
your hoe directory it will play nice.
> 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
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