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gnome-shell package

gnome-shell is using gigabytes of RAM in Ubuntu 17.10

Bug #1728345 reported by TomaszChmielewski
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Bug Description

After around 3 days of uptime, gnome-shell is using almost 6 GB of RAM in Ubuntu 17.10.

Most applications won't run due to "unable to fork".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 29 15:17:47 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-extensions' b"['<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', 'show-desktop-button@amivaleo', '<email address hidden>', 'Random_Walls@Antares', '<email address hidden>']"
 b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'firefox.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'org.gnome.gedit.desktop', 'libreoffice-calc.desktop', 'libreoffice-writer.desktop', 'google-chrome.desktop', 'slack.desktop', 'org.gnome.Calculator.desktop', 'org.gnome.Screenshot.desktop', 'telegramdesktop.desktop']"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'ibus'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'icon-theme' b"'Humanity'"
 b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-show-date' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-25 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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TomaszChmielewski (mangoo-wpkg) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1672297, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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