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Heisenberg
Asked: 2020-07-23 20:53:52 +0800 CST

snap-store and gnome-software taking too much ram

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I didn't even opened ubuntu-software store when this showed up. Is there a way I can avoid this from happening? Also, if I remove the snap-store package will I'll be able to install snap apps using the terminal?

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  1. You can safely uninstall the Snap Store app, and if you do you will still be able to install snap apps from the terminal with sudo snap install package-name and also to manage installed snap apps from the terminal.

    Your RAM usage for the snap-store and gnome-software seems unusually high. My RAM usage for gnome-software is 1.4 MiB even if the app isn't open. My RAM usage for snap-store is 0 if the app isn't open, and 4.0 KiB if the Snap Store is open. To release memory from the cache run echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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