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Bug #2143073 “ShmemHugePages leak during GNOME lock screen on 6....” : Bugs : linux-oem-6.17 package : Ubuntu
ShmemHugePages grows continuously while the screen is locked, consuming all 64GB RAM + 8GB swap, triggering the OOM killer. No single process accounts for the shmem — pages are orphaned in pagecache. Hardware — Lenovo ThinkPad 21QDCTO1WW, intel 225H CPU, with ARC 130T GPU. Software — Ubuntu version, kernel 6.17.0-1012-oem, GNOME on Wayland, GPU driver version: Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915, xe Steps to reproduce — Log in to GNOME Wayland session, lock the screen, leave id...