Why are shared memory segments leak seen in GNOME session after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 update?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Applications fail with shm errors on RHEL 7.6 .
(gvim:54140): Gdk-WARNING **: 16:31:46.799: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)
  • gnome-shell does not release shared memory segments in RHEL 7.6
Cannot create shared memory segment of 2105344 bytes
  • shm (shared memory segment) leaks seen in gnome session after RHEL 7.6 update.
  • After update to GNOME 3.28.3 (RHEL 7.6), shm's keep on increasing with time.
# ipcs -mp | awk '{ if ($2 == "test" && $3 == 1234) print $_ }' | wc -l
967

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
mesa-dri-drivers-18.0.5-3.el7.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.28.3-6.el7.x86_64

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