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Bug 695185 - Ridiculous memory leak; shell taking upto 1.1 GB in a matter of hours.
Ridiculous memory leak; shell taking upto 1.1 GB in a matter of hours.
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-05 06:39 UTC by Justin
Modified: 2013-03-05 12:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Screenshot; shell with 1.1 GB (68.15 KB, image/png)
2013-03-05 06:39 UTC, Justin 		Details

Description Justin 2013-03-05 06:39:03 UTC 
Created attachment 238087 [details]
Screenshot; shell with 1.1 GB

The ubuntu-gnome 13.04 here with gnome 3.7.90. The gnome shell has huge memory leak taking upto 1.1 GB in about 3-4 hours and this makes the entire system slow to the point of unusable.

I have to restart the shell every now and then to make it usable.
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2013-03-05 06:46:42 UTC 
Are you using any extensions? Can you run gnome-shell under valgrind to detect leaks under your setup?
Comment 2 Justin 2013-03-05 11:57:10 UTC 
Sorry, I completely forgot about the extensions. It is indeed caused by the backslide extension and created a bug in there.

Shell now takes up to around 180MB in my short test. If thats expected, I will close the bug.
Comment 3 drago01 2013-03-05 12:34:47 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, I completely forgot about the extensions. It is indeed caused by the
> backslide extension and created a bug in there.
> 
> Shell now takes up to around 180MB in my short test. If thats expected, I will
> close the bug.

180MB sounds reasonable.