[Mageia-dev] GNOME-shell/mutter 3.3.90 memory usage

Mon Feb 27 12:12:32 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 27/02/12 08:19 did gyre and gimble:
+> I'm seeing huge memory usage by gnome-shell/mutter 3.3.90 over time.
+> Restarting it avoids OOM issues. I wasn't sure if it was a local problem
+> or not, but saw one confirmation.
+> 
+> Didn't see many complaints upstream though, which is strange. I don't
+> see any new messages in ~/.xsession-errors, so bit difficult to figure
+> out what is wrong.
+> 
+> If anyone sees the same, please say so.
+
+Will do. The trick is likely to run gnome-shell via valgrind and get
+some logs. I did that last time I had a massive memory leak and I think
+ebassi or someone managed to fix it... didn't seem like a big error at
+the time, but turned out to be problematic.
+
+It's quite a pain running gnome-shell through valgrind as it really
+slows things down, but it does provide good data.
+
+Col
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