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High memory usage when enabling and disabling extension

Open Sultech opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

If you enable and disable this extension the memory usage will go really high. This also happens when you lock the computer. If you are running your pc constantly then this turns into a problem. A user on reddit had the same problem. His gnome-shell was using 20gb because he had not turned his computer off for 22 days and he was using this extension. His display would automatically lock every 5 minutes if he is inactive. Also, this does not happen with other extensions. I have attached a video to show the problem.

Reddit user

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/30802163/137806929-377a023e-fb3b-422d-87a9-b43280013f88.mp4

Sultech avatar Oct 18 '21 21:10 Sultech

Could this get more attention, please? I can still reproduce it on Fedora 38/GNOME 44 and affects badly the user experience during long desktop sessions and/or low end devices.

C-512L avatar Jun 15 '23 08:06 C-512L

I think it can be easily avoided by disabling the "brute force search for services", that is somewhat still needed in some cases.

I can think on providing an option for it, and also in any case to move the this off main shell process, so that it won't affect the unlock animation (for example).

3v1n0 avatar Jun 16 '23 00:06 3v1n0