Have Gnome installed on an Intel 8400, the ram usage is at 93% at idle and still climbing. Have 16 GB installed, cache is at 15 GB. Checked with free -h and system monitor.
Have the mainline kernel 6.9.10 and LTS 6.6 installed, both have the same ram issue. Tried X11 and Wayland, same with both.
Run the top command and press Shift+M to sort processes by memory usage.
See if you can find the culprit.
Also, this is a good reference on Linux’ memory management:
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I may be wrong, but i see nothing wrong in this.
No one process is consuming an exceeding amount of RAM. You are not even hitting the swap.
Please read the article I linked to.
Ram use is at 96% and swap is being used now.
Most of what seems to be “used” RAM is in buffer and cache. This won’t take any RAM from an application that needs it. Linux kernel will readily free up space in buff/cache if anything else needs the memory.
If you use your system as you normally do and won’t be noticing any lag or slowdown or else, I would say that your system is making an efficient use of the RAM.
At 2:43PM EST the system went to sleep, I have sleep turned off. Last I checked ram and swap were both at 95%.
Memory leaks are a known problem (bug) of gnome-shell. Use Wayland instead of X11/xorg. (Change on your login screen). In X11/xorg, restart gnome-shell with ALT + F2 , then “r”, then ENTER
or some shell extension is causing this.
source https://askubuntu.com/questions/1373685/gnome-shell-consumes-several-gb-of-ram
This is at least the second time you are asserting this general statement about GNOME without presenting any evidence for it.
You did it another time here: Gnome running smooth on one pc, but slow on other - #10 by anon62796363 and you were called out on it and backed off from your statement.
You are perfectly in your right not to like GNOME but this is a technical forum and we value facts, sources, evidence, objectivity etc. and not nonsensical statements.
Please stop doing this! Thank you!
As I said in my original post, I tried Wayland and have the same memory issue.
thanks the source is https://askubuntu.com/questions/1373685/gnome-shell-consumes-several-gb-of-ram
One specific case!? from almost 3 years ago? I don’t even bother reading. It could be anything.
Something else?
Don’t make general statement about things you have no clue about. This is not the right place for it.
2 years ago and gnome open source and development is slow
This ^
Now go get yourself another hobby instead of trolling around here!
i am not trolling on serous forms/topics
This ^
well your hobby is not that different to my
Mine is chasing the TROLLS the hell out of this forum.
mine is make software and installing linux and testing forums 
Fixed it for you 
