I also can confirm that this issue persists in Ubuntu 20.04 (focal). It's pretty irritating... it's bad enough that all of these Electron- based apps and chromium-based browsers are chewing up ~400-500Mb each. I don't need a silly software management UI doing it, too!
I recognize that gnome-software may not be a default-installed package on Ubuntu 20.04, but it still is widely used (I have several Flatpaks I need for work, and gnome-software offers the ability to easily install and coordinate their updates). Can't some developers at Red Hat and Canonical put their heads together for a few minutes and get this corrected, please? I also will second Meluco's comment. We should not all have to buy new 32Gb laptops just to run a simple productivity workstation. This really needs to get corrected. I am seeing reports of memory leaks in gnome-software going back as far as Ubuntu 16.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616332 Title: gnome-software using hundreds of MB of memory when not in use To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1616332/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
