Bug#803207: gnome-settings-daemon: uses far too much memory (5.5GB currently)

[Stephen Kitt]

Control: affects -1 + gnome-shell

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:52:01 +0100, Stephen Kitt <skitt at debian.org> wrote:
> On my system, the instance of gnome-settings-daemon started for the
> login session uses more and more memory as time goes by (even though
> there's no activity on the login session). Currently, after two days,
> it's using 5.5GB; the daemons in the user sessions are up to 644MB and
> 22.6MB respectively:

A few days later, its RSS is down but its VSZ is up (and my system is using
11.2GB of swap):

Debian-+  7973  0.0 13.6 10954276 4472144 tty7 Sl+  Oct24   5:16 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon

If it's any help, gnome-shell is exhibiting the same behaviour:

Debian-+  7912 41.2  7.6 4173604 2527448 tty7  Sl+  Oct24 4059:37 gnome-shell --mode=gdm --wayland --display-server

Regards,

Stephen
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