https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453570
Bug ID: 453570
Summary: activitymanagerd created database which took 80 GB in
file system
Product: frameworks-kactivities
Version: 5.93.0
Platform: Archlinux Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: ivan.cu...@kde.org
Reporter: piotr.mierzwin...@gmail.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Seems daemon activitymanagerd doesn't check if there is any free space in file
system only creates its files no matter how this space is available.
Yesterday (or today early morning, to be detailed) I experienced no free space
on my home directory.
No any warning was shown, what expected in that case, only I discovered that in
folder ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources file database-wal got size
over 80 GB, and this took whole available space in partition. I found 0 bytes
available
$ pwd
~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/
$ ls -lh
total 80G
drwxr-xr-x 2 piotra piotra 4.0K 21.04.2022 09:30 test-backup/
drwxr-xr-x 2 piotra piotra 4.0K 21.04.2022 09:30 working-backup/
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra users 12M 09.05.2022 00:54 database
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra piotra 158M 09.05.2022 02:30 database-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra piotra 80G 09.05.2022 02:38 database-wal
To fix this issue I removed all 3 files. And because these files were used by
working process, space in file system wasn't released, to do this I just killed
plasma session and restored files from directory "working-backup/"
I have 3 activities and additionally 1 as stopped. One is my working activity
where I have usually opened several windows, in second I have 1 window opened
(Dolphin) and third I have 3 opened applications (Firefox, KDevelop, and
konsole).
I System Settings I have checked following options:
"Activities -> Switching: Current virtual desktop: Remember for each activity
(needs restart)"
and
"Activities -> Privacy: Keep history: Forever"
"Activities -> Privacy: Remember opened documents: For all applications"
I suppose that this issue happened just because option: "keep history:
forever"
Only the strange thing is that, database increased so much in couple days. At
April 21st file "database-wal" had _only_ 415K (check below). I don't know what
data collects this file what caused creating huge file after couple days. Since
several year as I use KDE/Plasma this didn't happen me never.
$ pwd
~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/working-backup
$ ls -lh
total 12M
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra piotra 11M 21.04.2022 09:30 database
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra piotra 32K 21.04.2022 09:30 database-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 piotra piotra 415K 21.04.2022 09:30 database-wal
Would be nice if any notification would happen, just warning about huge
database and suggesting "cleaning history", if the reason is like I supposed.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93
Qt Version: 5.15.3
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