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 67CE71396D9 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAECA2BC0AB; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qt0-x233.google.com (mail-qt0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::233]) (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 65DFB2BC004 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qt0-x233.google.com with SMTP id f15so157326qtf.7 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:41:58 -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=roE3iDjZLyROgCJjHHYpCwEocsjvdL3tl2F0yfHEl/k=; b=WIpSHWLLIMbkzswO3+nhJpAgKjmo82GRUKodFkeEKnYLucT/AFRogMOsy1UV9IgIgs xtp5bwSKFAb48jMip9EwfmDen0xlmla1onjoCmmXSBZeNpoYNUYPUyoZDteyquzRbdkH 9j+ugc8KvK1KE30xxrj/YnbwfaK7K0OcovALsroeDaaR7sR+z8bdc7hPDrUHKI2w1Nm0 XKg5H7sgSA1WIEjOVx4E3wl/0OAyl5MhfN1sICtt+2qI5B4hgtKo3+AQeaJ0BgEXkpso 0zgvqITWLOyBHVGFjgE5u/y4dgHZCXoZtKyPpdEwieSBwabhfAHQUoPKbaxMpOBfzWoa JDsA== 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=roE3iDjZLyROgCJjHHYpCwEocsjvdL3tl2F0yfHEl/k=; b=mM77X+qDOxRFZLtdIlWcShNsgMmgrh6x9N1k19bgOMcD+z6jkRMaKPO4G5D80GCcPH rZeffkOD2/VGlDA94D+10pd/RZxVCx5nnluEgJ07cHd7xxHHXR0Zhnuo6uoaG/5wJnf8 hiLnjAh4Hidxm92QQdiNE5yuNv8HNbC6LDXaOqa9dqJPUibK0lJu4o/7xBnA1J+75xVh tYsTkwHbHiQ31Pd0pvQPAG5QCW3tqeMAQOo3na55lKqCSfBFamoB3f1uoN/I1vI1u8GZ qThti+mSk8m+j5wldnGusD5xq1eMk0e8jPWE8aXneBB+iqn7Z2TLTDC/D5k6DLubCpoY WNvg== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaWmMujG1fQV0K0IOIAJ8FN1Loj3YNtq6O5vtAbeyjoq8Q7gvyF4 MEp+4JLRpZZ7oShpTZqItuY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+SvbxFi7Avi2K7s2efeUdsp6ljASfxAKLqjNBlHpacwrZWITq0DbIf+re7TLoMl5Zx+L1TD+g== X-Received: by 10.129.33.130 with SMTP id h124mr1547307ywh.372.1508200917559; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:41:57 -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 h129sm3602220ywb.67.2017.10.16.17.41.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:41:56 -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: Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:41:55 -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: 3c681ec6-5ea9-4199-8c5a-089af0c67a3a X-Archives-Hash: 98080f3fff10747efa59e6cefdb5f35c 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 :-)  :-)