From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE8AE1396D9 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 922B82BC01A; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com (mail-yw0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3255C2BC00B for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id z195so3872319ywz.6 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:30:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:from:to:references:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w+YGkR4VbJwfzlw41U7s7DqPRYMZwTF6lYzn5xWYyz0=; b=e7zBmB1fBoA2sDfVttPMpU2X+ReKUHP3LBFW8/4j+EtSHtJY+4G6PAJVkagsqdfIKJ kiHYe0qtnEcIX2t6ImvRNdaCyJhyLtGnESnsHE0BvTgrsRDP2y7ULX94dlUyqOCCFRTR mL4eLDOaG5cJXUsgnOzQswpYZSamDtI+HRrIriyQA8PMJrZTMKNkkNwyLw5s99P4pydP uFMwQA1d2YiDocVDndjQ4qpdcNs5DOa7hCS49FaPJQ2Jc2Selte0V1Dj29s9xaN6z+fh uWU2nxJQ96TQmFC8Zd6RrrHzRJE7dChnNmh6sE7A9LoSo8yLBt1xX988rG0L0oIUQaAr BGqA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:from:to:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w+YGkR4VbJwfzlw41U7s7DqPRYMZwTF6lYzn5xWYyz0=; b=UzN5EAZWNVINWXqXGB1wFXL3C5bErIPX8hCqwATjTksMSWSmHJhwsbRoW1m4zIY3gB JbOuL1lmT3e3qA4F12RcB8VPDg0Qpwmy301G+0VMAb/woz89+vwVDIbCjGDHZDkFIpmQ Xe9bcnK0XMMzzy9cNZLQU66KMJvb2+ECufS2w0N7ROYg/OBL6iZnN2YfMqyek8c91Vs2 Ae7i9fyzcKs3xY9HlITWLoIL4LBUh/oqPBZFWjg95JfKpyq5P+ad+4HlpYuOvboDYDh3 2TM8cmjvCZ0120Bw7klLrDCa3xzoPZ9SVZhJrlHi/HPj4O8OU7OfP3qQz1uU15rAavM2 K1Lg== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaVkVpR9k7qx/j7N94UjTnm8Wk8R7+SKt0q2N20D3oc9D5pjQ4KG GXae22XYqF7nOvLmY7WWde8a5A== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+RtAZV4d6fGPOgIayk34eCNpAXZGob2JWeP9FnK+BKFS0h51GvQogA6BdcXV3U/7r7cNmisjA== X-Received: by 10.13.236.1 with SMTP id v1mr15654333ywe.359.1509046214369; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-55-63.jan.bellsouth.net. [74.240.55.63]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n67sm2818751ywd.80.2017.10.26.12.30.12 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory. From: Dale To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <28e1c23b-46d3-e0d5-f4ec-3166bc124c03@gmail.com> Message-ID: <36be28d0-49cd-2eac-b3fc-baa294c35655@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:30:11 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <28e1c23b-46d3-e0d5-f4ec-3166bc124c03@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 61396da0-489e-4866-b16d-f2153b40880c X-Archives-Hash: 493637d18e9192cd8f1da1251dca9fd1 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 little update, a recent update seems to have corrected this issue.  The update to 5.11.2 doesn't seem to have the same memory hog issue.  If anyone else is having this issue, upgrade to that version and hopefully it will work like it should. Thanks to all for their replies. Dale :-)  :-)