I've been wondering why my RAM usage is increasing over a span of 3 days
now. I suspect gnome-shell but a little sleuthing showed me something else.
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6
COMMAND %MEM
goa-daemon 49.5
gnome-shell 7.9
thunderbird 3.4
chrome 3.2
tracker-extract 2.5
goa-daemon is gnome-online-accounts. I believe gnome is trying to reach
my online accounts and a bad Internet connection is making it hard for
it to successfully connect. My darn ISP is the culprit.
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ killall goa-daemon
I have to stop the process. But do I need to restart it manually??
Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it
will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application
sends a D-Bus message to the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the
session bus.
From manpage goa-daemon
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6
COMMAND %MEM
gnome-shell 7.9
thunderbird 3.4
chrome 3.2
tracker-extract 2.5
chrome 2.2
[donato@archdesktop ~]$
It should okay to stop goa-daemon and just let an application restart it
if it's needed.
now. I suspect gnome-shell but a little sleuthing showed me something else.
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6
COMMAND %MEM
goa-daemon 49.5
gnome-shell 7.9
thunderbird 3.4
chrome 3.2
tracker-extract 2.5
goa-daemon is gnome-online-accounts. I believe gnome is trying to reach
my online accounts and a bad Internet connection is making it hard for
it to successfully connect. My darn ISP is the culprit.
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ killall goa-daemon
I have to stop the process. But do I need to restart it manually??
Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it
will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application
sends a D-Bus message to the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the
session bus.
From manpage goa-daemon
[donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6
COMMAND %MEM
gnome-shell 7.9
thunderbird 3.4
chrome 3.2
tracker-extract 2.5
chrome 2.2
[donato@archdesktop ~]$
It should okay to stop goa-daemon and just let an application restart it
if it's needed.
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