GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 694558
Memory consumption continues to climb(memory leak?) while navigating shell.
Last modified: 2013-06-04 18:01:41 UTC
Created attachment 237261 [details] Simply a screenshot of memory consumption. If I open the system monitor and view the gnome-shell process, it will continue to increase memory consumption as I continue to highlight options in the top bar(don’t know the actual name), or anything that once highlighted shows additional information in shell e.g. hovering over favourites, applications, activities. I have reached about 500 MBs of memory consumption. The issue with this is that I can't always reproduce this it only does it sometimes, while other times it doesn’t seem to have an issue with memory consumption. I will try to find out if anything I do triggers this activity, but have confirmed that it definitely does happen sometimes, and that it is directly related to simply navigating the shell. One more thing, would this be called a memory leak? I am relatively new to technical terms as I am for the most part an ordinary user. I am also new to Bugzilla and this form of bug reporting and if I have incorrectly done this report in any way, or can do anything else to help let me know.
What version of gnome-shell are you running? Run gnome-shell --version from a terminal Also what distro?
I am running Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit Gnome-shell is version 3.6.3.1 I am using parts of gnome3 from this ppa but gnome-shell is so far not modified from this ppa. https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
Sounds like a duplicate of bug 685513
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 685513 ***