Bug#989414: gnome-software: High memory usage

[Paul Menzel]

Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.38.1-1
Severity: normal
Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/941


Dear Debian folks,


After 13 days of uptime, gnome-software used almost 2 GB of memory.

     XXX     1396  0.0 12.1 3093792 1974280 ?     Sl   Mai21   3:18  | 
\_ /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service

```
$ sudo pmap 1396 | sort -h -k2
1396:   /usr/bin/gnome-software --gapplication-service
000055996ec97000      4K rw--- gnome-software
00007f06fa7fd000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f06fb7ff000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0703fff000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f071cffa000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f071f7ff000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f073412c000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0734d3e000      4K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0735b6f000      4K ----- libnss_resolve.so.2
[…]
00007f06e0379000  61980K -----   [ anon ]
00007f073016b000  64084K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0688000000  64136K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0738150000  64192K -----   [ anon ]
00007f06a8021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0714021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0718021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f073c021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f0740021000  65404K -----   [ anon ]
00007f06f0000000  65512K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f068c000000  65516K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0700000000  65532K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0690000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f069c000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06a0000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06b8000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06c0000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06c8000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06d0000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06d4000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06dc000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06e4000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06e8000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06f4000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0704000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f070c000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0710000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0720000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0724000000  65536K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f06b0000000  99168K rw---   [ anon ]
00007f0728000000 131072K rw---   [ anon ]
0000559970823000 258424K rw---   [ anon ]
  gesamt          3093792K
```

Upstream says [1] it’s probably fixed in version 40


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/941
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/blob/gnome-40/NEWS
[3]: https://tecnocode.co.uk/2020/06/09/heap-profiling-of-gnome-software/