[CentOS] Out of memory

Wed Dec 19 13:05:50 UTC 2018
Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>

Hi,

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?

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.

Thanks,

Jerry