The Big GNOME Shell Memory Leak Has Been Plugged, Might Be Backported To 3.28

[dungeon]

What people where thinking when they decided to use javascript for the DE in the first place..

Modern devs live fast and prefer bloat to slowdown fast computers, you know

[-MacNuke-]

What people where thinking when they decided to use javascript for the DE in the first place..

But hey, KDE installs a MariaDB database for their search stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[eggbert]

But hey, KDE installs a MariaDB database for their search stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This hasn't been true for quite some time...

[-MacNuke-]

This hasn't been true for quite some time...

Akonadi depends on MariaDB on ArchLinux and Debian Desktop with KDE installs it too. Last time checked: A week ago.

[dungeon]

General purpose Linux is designed to be bloat.

These who don't have memory, might want to check assembly OSes like Kolibri/Menuet or such

Our Linux devs have 16 core CPUs probably 32GB of memory, whatever and if it leaks couple gigs daily that does not matter at all, who cares - it is Desktop, not serious, etc...

And also devs are so lazy and ignorant to even dare to ask people with slow machines to test their bloated shitty code, no one sane with slow machine and/or low memory should ever test that and to lose any microsecond of his free time to deal with that laggy crap

[eggbert]

Akonadi depends on MariaDB on ArchLinux and Debian Desktop with KDE installs it too. Last time checked: A week ago.

Akonadi is the PIM framework, not the search stuff. Nepomuk, which has been abandoned, used to depend on MySQL as well. But their newer search functionality (baloo) does not.

[acobar]

Akonadi depends on MariaDB on ArchLinux and Debian Desktop with KDE installs it too. Last time checked: A week ago.

And you still can disable the thing by going to "Configure Desktop" -> "Search" and opt out. This has been a non-issue for quite some time so, what is your point?

[-MacNuke-]

Akonadi is the PIM framework, not the search stuff. Nepomuk, which has been abandoned, used to depend on MySQL as well. But their newer search functionality (baloo) does not.

It is still true that KDE installs a MariaDB database along with it and not "This hasn't been true for quite some time...".

I thought we are ranting about bloat so why not include KDE here?

[Vistaus]

Looks good! The blog post also includes an outlook to further performance work. GNOME shell always had mediocre performance, I wonder why it took so long to address this. There are quite a few low hanging fruit.

Because Canonical wasn't looking into these issues before

[angrypie]

It is still true that KDE installs a MariaDB database along with it and not "This hasn't been true for quite some time...".

I thought we are ranting about bloat so why not include KDE here?

~ % dpkg -l|grep mariadb
~ % apt list plasma-workspace
Listing... Done
plasma-workspace/xenial,now 4:5.12.4-0neon+16.04+xenial+build120 amd64 [installe
d,automatic]
N: There are 5 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

What's so cool about lying on the internet?

Anyway, I wish KDE plugged their leaks as well, but they have three layers to care about (Mesa, Qt and Plasma).