Bug#914918: gnome-shell uses huge amount of memory

[Eduardo Barros]

Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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Hello.
I'm on testing and everything up to date.
When i start my machine gnome-shell starts at 200~MB. After some hours it is
over 1GB and after several days it is using more than 20GB. This goes on until
the moment the system starts to use the swap and becomes sluggish. At this
point i opt to reboot it.
I'm on wayland with multiple monitors, dual ati gpu and 4 monitors.
I see there is a new version on unstable 3.30.2-1 and wiling to see it migrated
to testing.
Thank you!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt:pt_BR:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.30.1-1
ii  evolution-data-server                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.45-1
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.30.0-5
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gcr-3                                 3.28.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0                     3.28.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                               3.30.1-1
ii  gir1.2-geoclue-2.0                           2.5.1-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.58.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.28.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.1-2
ii  gir1.2-gweather-3.0                          3.28.2-1
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.19-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3                              3.30.2-1
ii  gir1.2-nm-1.0                                1.14.4-3
ii  gir1.2-nma-1.0                               1.8.18-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.42.4-4
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-21
ii  gir1.2-rsvg-2.0                              2.44.9-1
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.64.1-3
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.9-1
ii  gjs                                          1.52.4-1
ii  gnome-backgrounds                            3.30.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.30.1.2-1
ii  gnome-shell-common                           3.30.1-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.1-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0                           2.30.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-8
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-6
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.12-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                               3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23                        3.30.2-2+b1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.28.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.58.1-1
ii  libgjs0g                                     1.52.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.58.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.58.1-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.14.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.1-2
ii  libical3                                     3.0.4-1+b1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.4.4-1
ii  libmutter-3-0                                3.30.2-1
ii  libnm0                                       1.14.4-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.4-4
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.42.4-4
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.105-21
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-21
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      12.2-2
ii  libpulse0                                    12.2-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18.6-3
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-5
ii  libsystemd0                                  239-13
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.3-1
ii  mutter                                       3.30.2-1
ii  python3                                      3.6.7-1

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  bolt                  0.5-1
ii  chrome-gnome-shell    9-1
ii  gdm3                  3.30.1-1
ii  gkbd-capplet          3.26.0-4
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.30.2-1
ii  gnome-user-docs       3.30.1-1
ii  iio-sensor-proxy      2.4-2
ii  switcheroo-control    1.2-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-21

Versions of packages gnome-shell suggests:
pn  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12   <none>
pn  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2  <none>

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