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milczekzimowy
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nemo and nemo-desktop uses a ridiculous amount of memory.

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nemo and nemo-desktop uses a ridiculous amount of memory.
After an hour of operation, it can reach 2,5 GB.
This has only been happening for a few days.
Any ideas?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.0.4
    tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 info: plank wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 6 Faye
    base: Debian 12.1 bookworm
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: B150M PRO-VDH D3 (MS-7982) v: 2.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: B.D0 date: 06/28/2018
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6400 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Skylake-S
    rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3186 high: 3219 min/max: 800/3300 cores: 1: 3203 2: 3140 3: 3184 4: 3219
    bogomips: 21599
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 525.147.05
    arch: Maxwell pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1402 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.87x11.85") s-diag: 610mm (24")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 size: 531x298mm (20.91x11.73")
    diag: 609mm (23.97") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.147.05 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-17-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u bus-ID: 1-6:2
    chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
  IF: wlx76012dc3f20e state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: fe01
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1
    sub-v: 420e hci-v: 2.1 rev: 5000
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.83 TiB used: 509.55 GiB (27.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSDPR-CX400-512-G2 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 61.5 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB102 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0 size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1H15 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 460.13 GiB used: 57.14 GiB (12.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.1 GiB used: 41.9 MiB (0.5%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: Network driver: mt7601u
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 160mA chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: fe01
  Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Logitech Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1
    rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 046d:c077 class-ID: 0301
  Device-4: 1-10:5 info: Dell Keyboard SK-8115 type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 70mA chip-ID: 413c:2003 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C pch: 54.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 63 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 25%
Repos:
  Packages: 3116 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3115 pm: flatpak pkgs: 1
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] http: //dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:ungoogled_chromium.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb https: //ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/linuxmint/packages faye main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //ftp.pl.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb http: //ftp.pl.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    4: deb http: //security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    5: deb http: //ftp.pl.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 1d 14m wakeups: 3 Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 4.75 GiB (61.7%) Init: systemd
  v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Client: Unknown
  python3.11 client inxi: 3.3.26
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Re: nemo and nemo-desktop uses a ridiculous amount of memory.

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Could be a memory leak. Report here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues
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Re: nemo and nemo-desktop uses a ridiculous amount of memory.

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Thanks.
I reported it.
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Re: nemo and nemo-desktop uses a ridiculous amount of memory.

Post by milczekzimowy »

I reported it on Github and got help which worked.
I don't really understand what's going on, but it helped. :D
If anyone is curious, here's the link: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/3376
Thanks for the help.
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