Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge > amount of memory. I noticed it at one point and it was taking about > 8GBs. I killed it and restarted but it seems to keep happening after a > few hours. After I took a nap, I nudged the monitor back to the on > state only to notice it had eaten so much memory that the system killed > plasmashell and I had to restart it then. It also made other programs > go to swap since it was full as well. Glad the system dealt with it > instead of just crashing the whole thing. > > After I restart it, it goes back to normal, a few hundred megabytes, but > slowly starts increasing again. It gets old having to either logout or > restart the thing. > > Has anyone else noticed this happening on their systems? If not, I may > rename .kde4 and see if that helps. Maybe a bad or outdated config. > > Currently on: > > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5-r1 > > Was on: > > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5 > > It seems it was a Gentoo upgrade based on the -r1. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Just a FYI for anyone else having this issue. I just upgraded and it is still doing the same thing. I'd think if it was a bug in the package that it would be fixed. I think I'm going to try renaming .kde4 and see if a fresh start helps with this problem. Dale :-) :-)
