If any of you are running GNOME Shell (on any distro) on Wayland (on any GPU), can you run "nvtop" to see how much GPU memory "/usr/bin/gnome-shell" is using?
It's using ~50% of the (512MiB) GPU memory here. Is that normal?
@popey GNOME Shell 45.4 uses ~585 MiB of GPU memory (about 30%) here, on a session that has been running continuously (with apps etc.) for at least 1 or 2 weeks on Fedora 39, AMD graphics. I have about six statically-set workspaces instead of dynamic workspaces.
In comparison, Firefox uses 260 MiB on its own.
@nekohayo Mine has been up for under three hours. I have two workspaces, but three 1080p displays. I suspect it's multiple displays that's causing this. I am not suggesting it's a memory leak, just a lot of the GPU RAM is taken. My browser (Microsoft Edge) is only 72MiB (14%) and I have a ton of windows open (50+)
@popey I was not expecting something starting with nv to work for Intel graphics. But it does, barely. Shows the percentage used, but not memory; using Fedora 39 GNOME Wayland Intel 12th gen Alder Lake graphics.
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