Ok, so MONTHS later, I found the answer to this! Thought I would share. Those using DLZ with Bind, like myself, WILL run into this problem! If you look at the docs on the homepage for DLZ, the examples it gives are WRONG!! Only slightly, but enough to crash bind when attempting to use DLZ. Here's ...

Okay, i have the solution: never use desktop/gnome profile, only desktop/gnome/systemd. Damn

Have you tried other login manager e.g. slim?

Thistled, i do not have "dump" file there. Sure about that.
Anyway, thank you for this method, i'd never used it before, but it may be usefull

Yep, it's been doing this for about a year on my box.

If you enable the system monitor extension you will lose RAM in no time at all.
Without the system monitor enabled, you will lose RAM over a longer period of time.

When you only have 4Gb of RAM, you notice this in no time at all.

As suggested ...

This was discussed on this thread here .

There is a Gnome bug about it (in addition to the link I posted back there) here . Though it is not clear that Gnome recognise them as bugs from the comments by the devs on that.

Ouch, it seems not to be solvable by masking/unmasking :( Interesting that i ...

I think you might be on to something, it looks like I may have the same issue, I just never noticed because I have much more memory than I need.

I noticed just now that you can use 'gnome-shell -r' (replace) which will start a new process and kick the old one out. It's mildly disruptive but the ...

Hello.
I'm using "GNOME Shell 3.10.4" with "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-337.25". I neither use any extensions (according to "eselect gnome-shell-extensions") nor manualy installed them, so it seems to memory leak in gnome shell, becose it uses less then 1G memory on startup, but more then 2.6G after ...