[CentOS] Out of memory

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Yan Li wrote:
> On 12/19/18 5:05 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
>
>> I have three machines running CentOS 7.6 in desktop mode. 2 are fine.
>> 1 of them is having a memory issue that is Out of memory
>> [17878]  1000 17878  2069991    42311 11898880        0             0
>> gnome-shell
>>
>> This gnome-shell looking at /var/log/messages after reboot - is the
>> HIGHEST
>> amount of memory. Looking at "top" now - it certainly does not use that
>> amount of ram at this time.
>>
>> These are the gnome-shell packages installed.
>> rpm -qa | grep gnome-shell
>> gnome-shell-extension-alternate-tab-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-window-list-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-apps-menu-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-common-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-user-theme-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-extension-places-menu-3.28.1-5.el7.noarch
>> gnome-shell-3.28.3-6.el7.x86_64
>>
>> Why is gnome-shell eating my memory? What can I do?
>>
>
> /rant: gnome-shell has always been this resource hog in the past few
> years, maybe after they started using JavaScript for almost everything.
> There are countless memory leaks that are being patched. 3.29 and 3.30
> both have important fixes that are not in the 3.28 shipped by Red Hat for
> RHEL 7.6.
>
>
>> Basically - the machine isn't even doing anything. Boots up and shows
>> one static web page. At this time that is all. Then about 24 hours later
>> its out of memory. The other 2 machines that seem fine - are showing the
>> same web page. But not out of memory.
>
> On workstations, I have to hit Alt-F2 and type "r" to restart
> gnome-shell every morning to keep its memory use at bay. For long running
> sessions, I'd switch away from GNOME. Maybe to Cinnamon, XFCE, or any
> other lightweight desktop environments. Fixing the memory leaks of
> gnome-shell is not trivial.
>
On the one hand, KDE *used* to be a memory hog and bloatware... a number
of years ago. Now, it's lean and mean, compared to... they're using
JAVASCRIPT for the bloody GUI?

On the other hand, I almost never have problems. Of course, my manager
thinks I go overboard, because I log out, fully, every night. And I do the
same at home....

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