What do you expect from a resource-hog like GNOME shell? It’s the worst example of open source bloat and how an open source project can put its fangs deeply into an ecosystem. It’s hard to avoid it and even more difficult to avoid its libraries more and more projects depend on for no reason.
GNOME is one reason why the Linux desktop is in such a sorry state.
This is also why this problem is so hard to debug. It’s probably a very complex interplay with some obscure and unknown gnome-helper-library whose state is not well-kept.
For what it’s worth, there are better alternatives like Xfce, Elementary OS or dwm, and I recommend everybody to check them out.
What do you expect from a resource-hog like GNOME shell? It’s the worst example of open source bloat and how an open source project can put its fangs deeply into an ecosystem. It’s hard to avoid it and even more difficult to avoid its libraries more and more projects depend on for no reason. GNOME is one reason why the Linux desktop is in such a sorry state.
This is also why this problem is so hard to debug. It’s probably a very complex interplay with some obscure and unknown gnome-helper-library whose state is not well-kept.
For what it’s worth, there are better alternatives like Xfce, Elementary OS or dwm, and I recommend everybody to check them out.
For whatever its worth, I installed Fedora today and can’t replicate the problem. So it doesn’t seem to be a universal problem
Fedora 27 here with all updates installed on Lenovo X230 (Intel stuff), seeing the issue of increased memory usage here…