bug#40116: GDM: Memory leak in .gnome-shell-real process

[sirgazil]

 ---- On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:09:57 -0500 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote 
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 > > It seems that the bug is stronger in the GNOME desktop, but I've seen, at 
 > > least once, .gnome-shell-real using an abnormal amount of RAM while in 
 > > sway (about 800 MiB).
 > 
 > Could you check if it happens in a VM?  That is, you build your GNOME
 > config with ‘guix system vm’, try to do some activity in the VM, and
 > check in top whether ‘gnome-shell’ is growing.

I can try, but last time I did something like that the VM with GNOME was too 
slow to do anything (this computer only has 4 GiB of RAM).