Bug#881151: gnome-shell consume all your buffer free memory and then Linux kill X

[Davide Prina]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:05:26 +0100 Davide Prina wrote:
[...]
> I have found that the memory used by gnome-shell and firefox-esr increase
> until there is buffer free and where there is no more Linux kill all X
> processes.
[...]
> I have installed the following gnome extensions:
[...]
> * Random walls[...]

If I disable the "Random walls" gnome extension this problem is still
present, but it need a lot more time to appear (== X crash).

I have also noted that the swap have a very low usage and when X crash
there are still nearly all swap space available.

$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60

Ciao
Davide