Debian Bug report logs - #914918
gnome-shell uses huge amount of memory

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Package: gnome-shell; Maintainer for gnome-shell is Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for gnome-shell is src:gnome-shell (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Eduardo Barros <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version gnome-shell/3.30.1-2

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Report forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#914918; Package gnome-shell. (Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:39:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Eduardo Barros <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:39:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eduardo Barros <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: gnome-shell uses huge amount of memory
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:35:32 +0000
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
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Hello.
I'm on testing and everything up to date.
When i start my machine gnome-shell starts at 200~MB. After some hours it is
over 1GB and after several days it is using more than 20GB. This goes on until
the moment the system starts to use the swap and becomes sluggish. At this
point i opt to reboot it.
I'm on wayland with multiple monitors, dual ati gpu and 4 monitors.
I see there is a new version on unstable 3.30.2-1 and wiling to see it migrated
to testing.
Thank you!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt:pt_BR:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.30.0-5
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.28.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.28.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.28.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.28.2-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.19-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3                              3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.14.4-3
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.18-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-4
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-21
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.44.9-1
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.64.1-3
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.9-1
ii  gjs                                          1.52.4-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.30.1.2-1
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.30.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.30.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-8
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-6
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.28.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.58.1-1
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.52.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.58.1-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.1-2
ii  libical3                                     3.0.4-1+b1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-1
ii  libmutter-3-0                                3.30.2-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.14.4-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-4
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-21
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-21
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.2-2
ii  libpulse0                                    12.2-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.6-3
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-5
ii  libsystemd0                                  239-13
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1
ii  mutter                                       3.30.2-1
ii  python3                                      3.6.7-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.5-1
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    9-1
ii  gdm3                  3.30.1-1
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-4
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.30.1-1
ii  iio-sensor-proxy      2.4-2
ii  switcheroo-control    1.2-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-21

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
pn  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   <none>
pn  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  <none>

-- no debconf information



Information forwarded to [email protected], [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#914918; Package gnome-shell. (Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:21:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Eduardo Barros <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to [email protected], Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:21:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eduardo Barros <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: gnome-shell uses huge amount of memory
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:17:25 +0000
Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.1-2
Followup-For: Bug #914918

Dear Maintainer,

after filling the bug report i restarted my machine and after few hours gnome-
shell was using more than 1GB of memory. the next day more than 3GB.
after that i restarted gnome-shell and now with Xorg backend. to my surprise
since then gnome-shell is using a minimal amount of memory (265MB for an uptime
of 3 days). the same happened on another machine with distinct hardware.
it seems to be an issue with wayland or gnome-shell/wayland related.
if you need i can put one of those machines to test.
thank you.

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.30.0-5
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.28.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.28.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.28.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.28.2-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.19-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3                              3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.14.4-4
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.18-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-4
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-22
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.44.9-1
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.64.1-3
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.9-2
ii  gjs                                          1.52.4-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.30.1.2-1
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.30.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.30.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-8
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-6
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.28.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.58.1-1
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.52.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.58.1-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.1-2
ii  libical3                                     3.0.4-1+b1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-1
ii  libmutter-3-0                                3.30.2-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.14.4-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-4
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-22
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-22
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.2-2
ii  libpulse0                                    12.2-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.6-3
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-5
ii  libsystemd0                                  239-13
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1
ii  mutter                                       3.30.2-1
ii  python3                                      3.6.7-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.5-1
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    9-1
ii  gdm3                  3.30.1-1
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-4
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.30.2-1
ii  iio-sensor-proxy      2.4-2
ii  switcheroo-control    1.2-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-21

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
pn  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   <none>
pn  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  <none>

-- no debconf information



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