Memory leak

[udovicic]

I'm using gnome-shell 3.10.1 and I'm experiencing memory leak while using this extension which is installed from extensions.gnome.org. Gnome-shell normally takes about 190MB of RAM. But when extension is enabled, it piles up memory over time resulting with 600MB over 24h and it keeps going on until I restart Gnome. I don't know if it's important, but I'm using 64bit OS

[mtvoid]

Can confirm it, without the extension enabled, GNOME Shell takes ~ 150 MB of resident memory, but when it's enabled, the usage steadily keeps on rising.

[smoebody]

same for me

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description:    Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Release:        20
Codename:       Heisenbug```

$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.10.4

[ferdnyc]

For those who are seeing memory consumption growing over time, does a garbage collection run make any difference in the stats? (You can manually trigger garbage collecton using Looking Glass. Hit Alt+F2 and type lg to open the tool, then switch to the Memory pane and click the "Full GC" button.)

[Neroth]

The same in the Weather App. When you click the Reload button (call reload to libGWeather) the memory increase ... It's a libGWeather bug :( ...

[Neroth]

I tried this :

(164) this.info.set_enabled_providers(GWeather.Provider.METAR |
(165)                           GWeather.Provider.YR_NO |
(166)                                   GWeather.Provider.OWM);
(167) 
(168) /*this.infoC = this.info.connect("updated",function(){that.refresh();that.status(0);}); this.status("Information connection started");*/

...

(643) this.UI.reloadButton = new PopupMenu.PopupMenuItem(_("Reload Weather Information"));
(644) this.UI.reloadButton.connect('activate', Lang.bind(this, function(){/*this.info.update();*/}));

When you click the Reload button, memory is not increasing anymore ... the memory leak is from libGWeather ...