Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.

[P Levine]

What version of dev-qt/qtdeclarative is being installed?


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> P Levine wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> Howdy,
>>
>> I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge
>> amount of memory.
>
>
> ​Probably related to https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=141169 and
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62117​.
>
> Try seeing if this patch applies cleanly to dev-qt/qtdeclarative and if
> merging it resolves the issue:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/gitweb?p=qt/qtdeclarative.git;a=patch;h=
> 768f606cd3cd37c235e85225127201a42d272946.
>
>
>
> I followed the directions here:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
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> I've done it a couple times before, still have some patches there now, but
> wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything.  However, when I tell it to
> reemerge dev-qt/qtdeclarative, it doesn't apply the patch.  Usually it has
> a line that the patch was applied early on but I never seen it.  Odds are,
> I'm missing something somewhere.  I'll look into it more later.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>