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

[Olav Vitters]

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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Regards,
Olav