Bug#766595: Gnome-shell leaks memory

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:28:48PM +0200, fmneto at gmail.com wrote:
> I have news regarding this bug (or at least I believe this is the same
> bug).
> 
> GNOME devs have found a "memory leak" in gnome-shell's garbage
> collection, when related to GJS. They have merged the fix into the
> development branch (GNOME 3.30) and are going to (probably) merge into
> the 3.28 version as well.
> 
> https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/

Until very recently, this was kind of bearable. But recently, it because
way worse. I rebooted my machine 2 days ago, when gnome-shell was
sucking close to 10GB memory. It's been 2 days, and it's already sucking
4GB. That's with version 3.30.1-2.

Mike