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High ram usage

Open im7FFY opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Is it normal that a cold boot use a bit more than a gig of ram? I never really care that much but it feels a lot isn't it?

Do you (system76) or the gnome team plan on optimizing that?

im7FFY avatar Jul 07 '19 10:07 im7FFY

I have a similar situation. For me, gnome-shell uses 600+ MB of RAM and 7-15% CPU on the Purism Librem 15 v3. Is that high for no user interaction? When I restart gnome-shell the RAM goes down to 165MB. Thinking of switching to xfce, but many of pop!_os' features depend on GNOME.

escarlson avatar Jan 19 '21 18:01 escarlson

I am also experiencing a weird issue with this as well. My RAM usage for gnome-shell is 1 Gig even though I am not doing anything intensive and have disabled all of the extensions. I am a little confused what is going on. In my syslog, I am seeing a lot of page faults which may be related.

pjkaufman avatar Dec 31 '21 03:12 pjkaufman

Same situation here: gnome-shell always consuming around 700MB. Is that normal?

ericbrasiln avatar Mar 17 '22 14:03 ericbrasiln