Hi Giovanni, I also use gnome shell and love it, I don't have any lags or memory problems. Tbh in the last 2-4 years it's the most productive thing i have. Most of time I am running chromium (100tabs + YouTube), pycharm, gedit, lot of shells, MySQL Workbench and have several services running (sphinx, mariadb). Running these things very fluently on a i7 4700 with 16gb ram and standard OCZ SSD. Especially IDE takes a lot of RAM and Visual Studio is well known on windows not to spare with it. I have the same software setup on a Intel NUC with i3 and 8gb RAM. But with kodi, retroarch and a lot of instances node, cherrypy, mariadb instances. I don't use a IDE on it but whenever I do things on it it runs smoothly. I would check the RAM and SSD, what setup do you have? Giovanni Santini via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Di., 6. Feb. 2018, 23:09: > Good evening, > I am writing here since I do believe people here might have found > solutions already to my problems. > > Sadly, I am the problem, as I love GNOME Shell (ops). > Jokes aside, I love its interface and behaviour; although, it is really > hard to use it on a real-context basis for me. > What it happens is that if I execute RAM-consuming applications, GNOME > Shell behaves really badly, swapping a lot with memory. > > The usual scenario is me trying to send some e-mails, while I have > Visual Studio Code and Firefox for some coding; usually, this leads to > huge slowdown, up to making the system unusable. > > This doesn't happen when using a GNOME-friendly i3 session, executing by > far many more RAM-consuming applications (such as running Franz with > multiple services, Telegram Desktop and others). > > I got some good boosts from the following actions: > - Disabling almost all the Shell extensions, except for my 'essential' > ones. > - Using a X11 session instead of Wayland > - Tweaking swap and VFS parameters (there is a web article referenced in > the ArchWiki which is really good) > > So I have two questions: > 1. Am I nuts? Did I do something really bad to my GNOME Shell without > knowing that? How could I repair my setup? > 2. If this is it (GNOME Shell is TOO heavy), is there any lightweight DE > that offers something similar? I would need at least the search within > apps and files for sure. > > Thanks in advance for replies and sorry for such a long message. > > -- > Giovanni Santini > My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk > My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan > My GPG: 2FADEBF5 >
