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Cinnamon processes using almost all the RAM #9657

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago 
 * Cinnamon version
Cinnamon 4.6.7
 * Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...)
Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used
RTX 2060 with Nvidia Drivers 435.21
 * 32 or 64 bit
64 bit

Issue I have 16 Go of RAM. During the last days, I have seen that, in System Monitor, cinnamon uses more than 8Go and cinnamon-screensaver uses more than 3 Go whereas there is no other app running ... Moreover, in this same period, the computer with Linux Mint only (when i boot on the other OS it's working fine) is just extremely slow or even unusable and there is oftenly (every 30s or something like that) some freezes on every kind of app while everything is frozen (mouse included). Just want to say that before, everything was working perfectly until now...

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ItzSwirlz commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/pull/9923 would fix this

JosephMcc commented 3 years ago

We would need more information to troubleshoot this. If it was happening on any of the devs machines we'd already be working at fixing this. It's definitely not normal behaviour. We need to know what might be different with your machine/usage. There are things you could try to see if you could pinpoint what's causing it. Remove any third party applets. See if there is an app you are running that's causing this. Maybe try creating a new user and running Cinnamon essentially stock and see if still happens...

TerminalHash commented 3 years ago

9923 would fix this

It's a not fix. It's crutch. Normal DE should eating minimal RAM count, not 1 Gb from start and more all work time, if you want a comfortable working on your PC.