Comment # 25 on bug 1204380 from J���rgen Gro���

(In reply to Thomas Zimmermann from comment #24)
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the more detailed analysis. It makes me wonder if the problem is
> really in the kernel. Maybe one of the programs keep leaking graphics
> buffers. 
> 
> The graphics buffer is like a regular memory buffer. As long as a program
> has it allocated, the kernel will not release the memory pages.
> 
> 
> (In reply to J���rgen Gro��� from comment #23)
> > With electron running the shared memory consumption is going up at roughly
> > 200 - 300 MB per hour.
> > 
> > Stopping electron again has no effect, i.e. the shared memory consumption is
> > still rising at the same rate.
> 
> Could it be that the electron process keeps running in the background?

No, unless it has a sub-process with a different name in it. I've checked with
"ps -ef | grep electron".