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 -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
