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

[Sam Morris]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:52:01PM +0100, Stephen Kitt 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:

These days, gnome-settings-daemon has been split into several different
processes. If you are able to reproduce this on unstable, it would be
helpful to know which of the gsd-* processes you see it with.

If you can still reproduce it, I wonder if you're seeing my problem:
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/64>. Is
your system a laptop and/or does it have multiple GPUs? Could you try to
build test2.c[0] with the command:

    gcc -Wall $(pkg-config gnome-desktop-3.0 --cflags --libs) test2.c`

and run it, and see if it leaks memory on your system?

[0] <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/uploads/599d9837169ed1cd2e9cf5a8db88a3a4/test2.c>

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