[2172144] gnome-shell leaks ~60-70 MiB/min of GPU (i915) shmem on Wayland after upgrade to 26.10; exhausts RAM in ~2.5 h
LaunchpadBug #2172144 “gnome-shell leaks ~60-70 MiB/min of GPU (i915) shm...” : Bugs : gnome-shell package : UbuntuAfter upgrading to Ubuntu 26.10 (Oct 17), gnome-shell's GPU memory grows steadily until the system runs out of RAM and swap, freezes, and the OOM killer kills Edge/other apps. Logging out and back in frees it all without a reboot.
System: Intel Raptor Lake-P Iris Xe (i915), 14 GiB RAM, 7.3 GiB swap, Wayland
Versions: gnome-shell 51.0-2ubuntu3, mesa (libgl1-mesa-dri) 26.2.4-1ubuntu1, kernel 7.3.0-