Howdy, I been noticing that sddm is using a lot of memory. In the past, it would use a few hundred megabytes but nothing out of the norm for a GUI command. This is what ps aux shows.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 19256 1.0 10.3 3443932 3400112 ? S 02:40 6:36 /usr/libexec/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth8e2859d9-6da1-4071-b479-b9caa969c3d8 --id 1 --start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user dale When it did this the other day, I closed all my programs so I could logout, reset and log back in again. After I hit logout, I noticed the little memory usage meter on the bottom of my screen was down to a more normal level. It was already logging me out so to late to stop it. It seems that it dropped after I closed Firefox. I tend to have two profiles running and they use quite a bit of memory on their own. The new thing is sddm using this much as well. Could Firefox have some effect on this?? When I first login, it is using the normal amount of memory. It seems to build up from there. Once it hits around 13 or 14%, it seems to stop using any more. I've let it run for a while and it seems to stop there. I'm pretty sure I upgraded sddm the other day. This is where I'm at right now. kde-plasma/sddm-kcm-5.18.4.1 x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r1 Is anyone else noticing this? I would go back a version but it is masked, I'm assuming it has some known issues that may be worse than this. I might add, while I normally switch to the boot runlevel and back again after a upgrade, I did have to shutdown last night. I was trying to replace my UPS batteries. My new batteries are about 1/4" to tall. New set on the way. Anyway, it is doing this even after a fresh power up. I did a bug search on BGO but didn't see anything like this. Any ideas? Dale :-) :-)
