On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 11:25 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Why is GDM kept around for Gnome logins? Is there a way to disable
this "parent" GDM
process?
It is a non-ideal design. There is technical explanation in [1] (in
particular, comment #20) about why this was changed (TL;DR for running
X unprivileged), and the work that would be required to fix this.
We also need to bring back the nice transition between gnome-shell and
gdm (which disappeared due to this issue).
[1]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747339
Over the course of a few days the GDM user process of gnome-shell
balloons in memory
usage from very small to very large. The following stats were
produced on a box with
a 5 day uptime and 8 GB of RAM.
Are you using NVIDIA's proprietary driver? So far, all of the excessive
memory usage complaints I've seen have been from people using that
driver, which we obviously can't help with. :/
If you're using an open source driver, then please file a bug report.
Thanks!
Michael