GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 778368
Gnome-shell leaks 1 to 4 MB every time I press 'show applications' [valgrind log]
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:40:37 UTC
Created attachment 345274 [details] valgrind log Gnome-shell leaks 1 to 4 MB every time I press 'show applications' latest git versions from master branch of mutter/gjs/gnome-shell.
Created attachment 345356 [details] Valgrind log with suppressions file.
One more note. What happened is that at the end, I did: mutter --replace to delay logging out. It appears as though gnome-shell didn't handle that well, crashed, and didn't clean up its GL stuff before dying and Valgrind reported it as a leak (that was suggested on IRC).
Created attachment 345483 [details] new valgrind log without segv ctrl c avoids the segfault but it says: Process terminating with default action of signal 2 (SIGINT) Anyway, I uploaded a new valgrind log. perhaps this one helps more.
The following valgrind log may be of interest to this bug as it seems to cover librsvg and gdk-pixbuf a lot https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=346365
I'm not entirely sure that this is the same case but gnome-shell 3.23.91-501.1 (openSUSE Tumbleweed) has been leaking a large amount of memory on X11 and Wayland over time. The leak can go up to 900 MiB.
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