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Re: GDM, GNOME and RAM issue
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sirgazil |
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Re: GDM, GNOME and RAM issue |
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Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:55:09 -0500 |
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Hi, Catonano :)
---- On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:10:33 -0500 Catonano <address@hidden> wrote ----
> I remember that the Gnome people fixed a memory leak some months ago
> It had to do with a glitch in the layout of pointers to instances in the
> Gnome object system that made it difficult for the garbage collector to
> reach exhausted references
>
> Now I don't remember when this was and what version of Gnome was involved,
> I'm being a bit vague, I know
>
> But if the version of Gnome in Guix is not recent, there's a good chance
> that you're running into that bug.
>
There is at least two leak reports upstream against more recent versions of
GNOME Shell (Guix has 3.32.2) that look similar to the one I reported:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&search=leak
I'm trying to reproduce the issue in a virtual machine.