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

Tue Feb 28 19:30:37 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 28/02/12 16:12 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:19:40AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
+>> 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.
+> 
+> Upstream suggested to apply a patch.
+> 
+> | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642652
+> |   gnome-shell | general | 3.2.x
+> | 
+> | --- Comment #139 from Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net> 2012-02-28 04:27:28 UTC ---
+> | (In reply to comment #137)
+> | > Seeins also high memory usage with 3.3.90 (growing to 1.3GB within 12 hours or
+> | > so). Doing nothing special and no extensions installed.
+> | 
+> | This is entirely my fault.
+> | http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=d2aab9d6a620f561e71a884ff5c44ec0bb654f9a
+> | should fix it.
+> 
+> gnome-shell-3.3.90-2.mga2 is building at the moment with this patch included.
+
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