linuxmint / linuxmint/cinnamon
Cinnamon processes using almost all the RAM
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Description
* Cinnamon version
Cinnamon 4.6.7
* Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...)
Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
* Graphics hardware *and* driver used
RTX 2060 with Nvidia Drivers 435.21
* 32 or 64 bit
64 bit
Issue
I have 16 Go of RAM. During the last days, I have seen that, in System Monitor, cinnamon uses more than 8Go and cinnamon-screensaver uses more than 3 Go whereas there is no other app running ... Moreover, in this same period, the computer with Linux Mint only (when i boot on the other OS it's working fine) is just extremely slow or even unusable and there is oftenly (every 30s or something like that) some freezes on every kind of app while everything is frozen (mouse included). Just want to say that before, everything was working perfectly until now...
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported memory growth in Cinnamon 4.6.7 and cinnamon-screensaver on Linux Mint 20, using System Monitor while observing the periodic freezes. Compare memory usage and responsiveness over time; the issue is resolved when neither process grows abnormally and the freezes no longer occur.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, linux
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100