Re: GNOME Initiatives

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 22:23 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 18:50 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > Looks like GNOME Initiatives could use with some updating as well. 
> > There are some that are current and some that might need to be
> > revisited.  For instance:
> >
> > Document Centric GNOME
> > Memory Reduction
>
> Memory reduction would be a good one to revisit and update. I was
> looking at that in frustration today as my machine hit swap and an
> Intel driver bug took down my desktop session as a result. It looks
> like we’ve gone sufficiently long without focusing on reducing memory
> usage that there should be some good low-hanging fruit there.
>
> (For example, it seems like half the shell search providers persist
> in
> memory long (indefinitely?) after a shell search is done, at about
> 50MB
> RSS each.)

There's low-hanging fruit in the shell search providers, certainly. But
I don't think they should be running at all:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785380

Switching to a systemd-based session should also allow us to transform
some long-running background processes into timer units, freeing some
space.

Finally, getting rid of the gdm shell session will also free up RAM:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785950
(the duplicate bug has a nonsensical summary)

Cheers