Hi,
I’m using Gnome 3.2 with openSUSE 11.4, and gnome-shell has memory leak problem. I have to periodically restart gnome-shell and otherwise the system becomes very sluggish.
It seems to be an upstream problem (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642652), but I was wondering if there is any progress on this.
I’m using nvidia driver.
-Joon
Hi
Tumbleweed or stock 11.4?
I’m running 3.2.0 with 11.4 and don’t have any memory issues (via htop
or ps auxw), firefox seems more prone…
A lot of those issues seem to relate to extensions, are you running any?
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I’m using stock 11.4. I was running bunch of extensions so that could have been the problem … if it were, then I should have asked this a long time ago! 
Thanks. I will try to turn off all extensions and see if it fixes the problem.
-Joon
Okay so it seems system monitor was causing the problem. I have seen several people reporting it (e.g.: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122269&p=2)
So I disabled it and it seems the leak is better (memory usage increase is slower it seems) but it is steadily increasing.
Someone also said 3.2 has a bad leak, and it is fixed in 3.2.1 (For users of Fedora Core (Red Hat) releases). I see for 12.1 gnome-shell is 3.2.1. Hope this is fixed in the upcoming version.
Thank you,
Joon
Hi
12.1 has 3.2.1, but hopefully this will be ready soon for 11.4 as well
(once the 12.1 rush settles).
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Yes, Gnome Shell leaked in 11.4 and it will leak forever, it’s defected by design, looks defectively, acts defectively and there is nothing to do with it, it’s a kind of modern JS interfaces thread. There is nothing to do with it, cause such sick ideas as Gnome Shell will ever involve too much (if not completely) sick technologies and maintainers.
They killed GNOME 2, the best desktop ever.
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:06:03 +0000, joonpy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m using Gnome 3.2 with openSUSE 11.4, and gnome-shell has memory leak
> problem. I have to periodically restart gnome-shell and otherwise the
> system becomes very sluggish.
> It seems to be an upstream problem
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642652), but I was wondering
> if there is any progress on this.
I’ve done a little testing on this myself and found that the system
monitor extension is the source of the leak on my laptop.
Disabling it resolved the issue for me. Running gnome-shell 3.2.1 on
12.1.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:26:03 +0000, Razorcold wrote:
> Yes, Gnome Shell leaked in 11.4 and it will leak forever, it’s defected
> by design, looks defectively, acts defectively and there is nothing to
> do with it, it’s a kind of modern JS interfaces thread. There is nothing
> to do with it, cause such sick ideas as Gnome Shell will ever involve
> too much (if not completely) sick technologies and maintainers.
> They killed GNOME 2, the best desktop ever.
Clearly you’re not happy with GNOME3.
That’s no reason to make the claim that it’ll “leak forever”, as that’s
certainly not true.
Jim
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Yes, even with 3.2.0, getting rid of system monitor extension made the thing much better.
Now the speed of leaking got much slower. Cannot wait to upgrade to 3.2.1. I plan to upgrade to 12.1 this weekend so soon it should be solved for me.
Thank you,
Joon