This is *not* specific to nvidia_drm.modeset=1¹. With KMS disabled gnome-shell still freezes for a second or two and its RSS grows by ~50MB each time a zsh prompt is displayed.
This is also a regression from Cosmic. I did not experience this behaviour on Cosmic. ¹: Although some other quirks are. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815550 Title: [nvidia] gnome-shell RSS grows without limit, general slowness To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1815550/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
