Greetings,
Since the last stable update on 04.06.2023 I have noticed a bit of odd behavior while gaming - gnome-shell starts to consume more memory and while doing so, the whole system micro freezes for a few moments. Then it resumes to behave normally, till next memory increase.
I have ended up having gnome-shell consuming 4.6 Gb while gaming. The annoying part is the micro freeze, especially in online shooter games.
Anyone else had similar experience while gaming, after the update?
Same behavior if you disable all gnome extensions? I guess one of them is producing such a behavior.
I have started testing this morning, by disabling all extensions and enabling them one by one.
Will see what will be the result - a lot of gaming needed 
Pretty much anything beyond Dash to Panel and AppIndicator extension enabled causes the micro freezes for me.
For now, I will just turn off Gnome Extensions globally before starting to play and turn them back on after.
Just wanted to add that I, too, am seeing a post-update increase in gnome-shell memory usage and multiple micro-freezes. But it is not limited to gaming, and gnome-shell takes as much as 12GB of memory.
Also, the memory suck does not āstickā after restarting the gnome-shell, but soon thereafter the memory usage goes back to a high number.
I almost didnāt post, because it seems to generally work. So I assume many others are experiencing this too.
Below are inxi -F results for two very different machines running Manjaro and experiencing the issue.
Machine 1:
System:
Host: manjaro-yoga Kernel: 6.1.31-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME v: 44.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 80VF v: Lenovo YOGA 910-13IKB
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: Agera v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: LENOVO v: 2JCN39WW date: 05/31/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 60.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 60.2/78.0 Wh (77.1%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-7500U bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 613 min/max: 400/3500 cores: 1: 573 2: 654
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Chicony EasyCamera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo
missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.1.31-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
driver: ath10k_pci
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: 58:00:e3:d0:d8:81
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb type: USB
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 58:00:E3:D0:D8:82 bt-v: 2.1
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 67.34 GiB (28.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000L2
size: 238.47 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 81.24 GiB used: 66.97 GiB (82.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 451.5 MiB used: 133.1 MiB (29.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 233.1 MiB (91.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.31 GiB used: 13.8 MiB (0.1%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C pch: 35.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 279 Uptime: 17h 6m Memory: available: 7.51 GiB
used: 4.48 GiB (59.7%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.27
Machine 2
System:
Host: manjaro-imac-2019 Kernel: 6.1.31-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: GNOME v: 44.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: iMac18,3 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 v: iMac18,3
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 429.120.4.0.0 date: 04/22/2021
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-7500 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3685 min/max: 800/3800 cores: 1: 3539 2: 3795 3: 3703
4: 3703
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-2: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1 driver: X:
loaded: radeon unloaded: modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo
missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: GN Netcom Jabra SPEAK 510 USB driver: jabra,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB
API: ALSA v: k6.1.31-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC driver: brcmfmac
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 18:81:0e:dc:3e:c8
Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
IF: enp4s0f0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 68:fe:f7:0a:bd:43
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:01:42:dc:e6
IF-ID-2: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller
driver: btusb,hid-generic,usbhid type: USB
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 18:81:0E:DC:3E:C9 bt-v: 2.1
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 957.59 GiB used: 516.96 GiB (54.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Apple model: SSD SM0032L size: 26.08 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: HDD ST1000DM003 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 91.11 GiB used: 50.84 GiB (55.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 451.6 MiB used: 131.5 MiB (29.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda6
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 196.9 MiB used: 42.6 MiB (21.6%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 888.9 MiB (11.7%)
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 350 Uptime: 15d 1h 36m Memory: available: 23.37 GiB
used: 11.01 GiB (47.1%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.27
Waitā¦ what? You boot up and the gnome-shell has taken 12GB RAM? No applications are running?
Prove it:
pamac build smem
sudo smem --numeric --abbreviate --totals --sort=rss
Noā¦sorry, not at boot. Over time with applications running. Apologies if that was unclear.
Then the applications take memory and not gnome-shell?
Yes, overall. But the 12GB was specifically for gnome shell. I canāt āprove itā at the moment, because I restarted when it got that high. But will post back if it gets there again.
I found few extensions (and/or combination of them with my other extensions) that were the main contributors for the micro freezes, in my case:
After disabling them, so far, no more micro freezes while gaming or in other activities outside of gaming.
Please feel free to add your findings
Freon and Openweather updates the screen on updating values. Guess that is known? So the micro freezes are just screen updates, which are no fast enough.
