Re: gnome-shell feedback

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 20:42 +0100, Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes wrote:
> Hey all,

> My second issue was after using gnome-shell for a couple of hours,
> although it seemed very stable i experienced serious slow down the
> more i used it. It looked like mutter might have been leaking as it
> was consuming 200mb+ of memory?

There's a pretty serious bug in 2.8.0 where it leaks memory and
signal handlers:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/commit/?id=ab0460ad5926aef2cb802f201069109ce9fc2dd8

If you are running 2.8.0 rather than latest git you might be hitting
that; I'm going to do a 2.8.1 this week.

- Owen