Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
by axaxs on Sunday August 24, 2014 @05:49PM
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Question if I may since you seem familiar with gnome. I use 3.12 and really enjoy it, but gnome shell (or mutter, or the js engine) seems to leak memory pretty badly. That is, if I mouse to the top left hot corner, then escape, I see its RSS increase, as probably expected. However, it increases each time I do this. I can get it to 500mb by doing nothing more than going into and out of the dash for a few minutes. In real use, after an eight hour day I see it anywhere from 700m to 1g rss. Any idea what's happening behind the scenes, or if this still happens in 3.14?
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What happens if you run looking glass and perform a garbage collection. (<Alt>F2, lg<Return>, click on trash icon).
If you see RSS drop significantly back down, there is a chance it will be fixed in the future. It's pretty difficult to let the JS engine know how big the resources are that are not in JS-land so that it can take things into account for a GC. (There are some patches related to this in bugzilla IIRC).