Gnome-shell consuming memory

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 16:16:05 UTC 2020


On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 13:26, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Switching away from gnome is not considered to be within reason :)

Yep, that sounds like GNOME.

It's half written in JavaScript, the leakiest language on Unix since
PHP. Standard behaviour, guv.

They got a big one a while back:
https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/

There are doubtless others, though.

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