The snap-store is using hundreds of MiBs of RAM.

Same here on relatively fresh ubuntu 20.04 install.

#metoo 400mb currently on a newish ubuntu 20.04 install. It's not even open...just sits in the background sucking down my ram.

I have also noticed this behavior.

#MeToo, it happens for me as well. Currently it is taking up 250MB RAM while its not even open

Got the same here. snap-store sitting in the background and eating 200MB of RAM

#MeToo, since I installed Ubuntu 20.04, snap-store process is taking even more than 300MB

Just checked again, 475mb. This is getting an absolute joke and isn't on, why have they released ubuntu 20.04 with this RAM sucking monster? Not all of us are devs with 32GB machines, some of us are on laptops with 4GB/8GB and having a program/service doing absolute nothing sat in the background consuming 1/8th of available RAM is just a slap in the face.

Same here, 447Mb on a fresh ubuntu 20.04 install

Snap-store on 20.04 uses more memory than gnome-shell and Xorg - about 30-25% more than original gnome-software 3.36 I just checked by installing with 'apt install gnome-software' !

Same here 352M on ubuntu 200.04 and it is not even open

Same problem here, 260M, with apparmor errors related to snap-store:

[Thu Jun 11 12:43:04 2020] audit: type=1400 audit(1591890185.710:1238): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="snap.snap-store.ubuntu-software" name="/var/lib/snapd/hostfs/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/categories/" pid=2785 comm="pool-org.gnome." requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1002 ouid=0

#metoo, It is using 288MB of my RAM memory when it is not even opened, but just running at the background.

+1

255MB of RAM while it's not even open

Me too almost 400MB

Fresh 20.04 install and mine is between 200 and 400 MB

snap-store is 430MB

Same problem on Xubuntu 20.04, using 825 MiB... There are some updates waiting to be installed.

Top roller at 2.6%

Observed snap-store using over .5 GiB of ram

Also seeing this on a new (less than a week) install of 20.04. I run an older machine and this hogs my performance.

570 MiB here

It doesn't seem intermittent to me. Isn't memory consumption always high (>300MB) for you?

This probably has to be addressed upstream https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/942

Same here, 461MBs while running in the background on a relatively fresh, up-to-date Ubuntu 20.04.1 install. This is not OK.

I think:
1. Memory usage is too high when application is running.
2. Most important - the application stays in background after closing window and still consumes around 400MB of memory (this is a lot).

On my fresh Ubuntu 20.04LTS the snap store uses 1,1Gb of memory. I think that is insane and I will take action to disable or remove the program from my pc.

Still happening on a fully updated Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

mee too 400mb

It appears to take 250MB resident (according to top) on my Raspberry Pi 400 even when the software is "closed". On a machine with 4GB, this is pretty significant. Even more so considering we now support the desktop on Pis with as little as 2GB of RAM.

$ find /proc -maxdepth 2 -path "/proc/[0-9]*/status" -readable -exec awk -v FS=":" '{process[$1]=$2;sub(/^[ \t]+/,"",process[$1]);} END {if(process["VmSwap"] && process["VmSwap"] != "0 kB") printf "%10s %-30s %20s\n",process["Pid"],process["Name"],process["VmSwap"]}' '{}' \; | awk '{print $(NF-1),$0}' | sort -h | cut -d " " -f2-

snap-store eating my swap file

:(

I found that snap-store was consuming fully 1 GB of RAM on my system when I checked it just now. Such a huge memory use for something I *never* used. I would like to think that core elements of the a default Ubuntu system would be designed more carefully for low memory use.

I am running on fresh Ubuntu 22.10 installation.
snap-store consumes 500 MB of my system.

as a workaround I am closing this app manually. is there any better solution?

Hey Guys,
I am using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS x86_64. The problem still persists.

On my Ubuntu 23.04 the snap-store uses ~26GB!!! of RAM in 7 days of uptime. o_0

> ps -p 6720 -o %cpu,%mem,cmd
%CPU %MEM CMD
 0.0 39.6 /snap/snap-store/959/usr/bin/snap-store --gapplication-service

> top -n 1 -p 6720
top - 00:54:56 up 7 days, 20:34, 2 users, load average: 1.83, 2.31, 2.60
Tasks: 1 total, 0 running, 1 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 64004.4 total, 19553.1 free, 42037.0 used, 6194.6 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 1952.0 total, 0.0 free, 1952.0 used. 21967.4 avail Mem

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
   6720 taurus 20 0 27.1g 24.8g 5604 S 0.0 39.6 4:39.30 snap-store

Happy to help tracing it! How?
P.S. It could be the separate issue...

Ubuntu 23.04, issue still persists.