I had initially misunderstood which way round you wanted me to check with the seconds setting, but I had checked carefully both ways and have now checked again that I cannot see any discernable leakage with seconds enabled, but I have got it disabled now.
I have also confirmed without doubt that it is appimagelauncher daemon that is triggering the problem. With it disabled there is no apparent leakage and with it enabled there is. However, rather irritatingly, I have been unable to replicate this on another machine, so there must be some additional interaction on the failing system. Currently I have no idea what that might be. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862910 Title: gnome-shell leaking memory Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On one of my machines which has been upgraded over several years and is now running 19.10 just one of the configured users appears to be seeing a dramatic memory leak in gnome-shell, even when nothing is happening on the UI. Immediately after logging on, using the Ubuntu selection from the logon screen, gnome shell shows as using about 134MB. From there it climbs at about 300MB per hour and after a few hours the machine grinds to a crawl, not surprisingly. This happens even if the user logs on and then the machine is left completely alone. Logout and back in frees all the memory. A test user I have configured sees no such problem. I have uninstalled all extensions apart from the system ones, disabled all the system ones and reset all the gnome settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/ to no avail. Also I have removed ~/.local/share/gnome-shell and allowed it to recreate it. Also I have removed .compiz, .config/dconf/user, .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2. I can't see anything obvious in the log. It must be something in my settings that is triggering it as the other user does not see it, but I have run out of ideas on what to try. See also bug #1856516 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.34.1+git20191024-1ubuntu1~19.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-29.31-generic 5.3.13 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Feb 12 08:54:21 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-21 (1939 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20141017) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.1+git20191107-1ubuntu1~19.10.1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2020-01-27 (15 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1862910/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
