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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [KScreen] [Bug 342374] Memory Leak in plasma-desktop grows into gigabytes
From:       Shawn Cook <shawn () strongerforyou ! com>
Date:       2015-01-22 17:25:44
Message-ID: bug-342374-17878-KbwrVL5xWn () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342374

--- Comment #15 from Shawn Cook <shawn@strongerforyou.com> ---
(In reply to Hussam Al-Tayeb from comment #14)
> (In reply to Matt W from comment #12)
> > Yes, it will consume all my memory sometimes in 6-8 hours.  It won't get me
> > through a work day, sometimes.  Sometimes it will go a couple of days, but
> > it will take it all up.
> > 
> > I run Nvidia on both machines.  On Fedora 20, I use:
> > 
> >  kmod-nvidia-3.17.7-200.fc20.x86_64-331.113-1.fc20.x86_64
> > 
> > Again, F21 isn't up, but I believe it's nvidia version 346.
> > 
> > I run 3 montitors, with a panel on each.  I run task manager in each.  I run
> > YAWP (yet another weather plugin), and then pager, kmenu, a few apps, and
> > then a notification bar.  The 3 monitors might accelerate the problem, I
> > don't know.
> 
> Does removing yaWP help? Try using kdeplasma-addons' weather applet instead
> and see if the memory usage gets better. Some unofficial plasma applets
> often cause issues.
> 
> Another thing to try is check if Xorg memory usage is increasing. If that is
> increasing, it could mean some pixmaps are being cached, and re-cached
> instead of being read from memory.

You can use xrestop to see if pixmaps are growing on you and consuming the ram.
 (For me) they did not.

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