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I recently reinstalled ubuntu (about a month ago) and gnome-shell usually uses about 150-300 MB ram but suddenly from the last 2 days, gnome-shell is taking a lot of ram(Even jumps up to 2GB). I only have 4GB ram, so this is a big issue for me.

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I can fix this by restarting gnome-shell but even after 10 minutes of use, I have to restart it again. Is there any way to fix/avoid this?

Note: I'm on ubuntu 20.04

Heisenberg
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To disable an extension, first get a list with

gnome-extensions list

To list only enabled extensions, use

gnome-extensions list --enabled

To disable an enabled extension, use e.g.

gnome-extensions disable ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com
wint3rschlaefer
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General methods to investigate issues with gnome shell:

  1. Disable all extensions and check if that solves it.
  2. If so enable 1 extension at a time and find the culprit.
  3. If you find a culprit visit the extensions page and file a bug report if there is not one filed yet.

If 1. is not the answer switch the video card driver to another and check if that fixes it.

Rinzwind
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This is an old thread but for what it's worth, I think I've solved a similar problem by installing Gnome Tweaks, then unchecking the visual effects. CPU and memory usage has reduced, and does not appear to be progressively accumulating, as happened before. Ubuntu 18.04.

Ranger
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