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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sddm-helper and high memory usage
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 00:54:53
Message-Id: e4104c49-515a-3b86-fdc2-dd9f19227383@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Next time, that's the plan.  So far tho, it is working fine.  This is
5 > what ps shows:
6 >
7 > root     23338  0.0  0.0  54528 14400
8 >
9 > It hasn't changed since I logged in.  It's hasn't increased even one
10 > byte.  Usually by now it would be up to a few 100MBs or so. 
11 >
12 > Dale
13 >
14 > :-)  :-) 
15
16
17 It's been several hours now.  Usually by now it would be well over a
18 Gigabyte and more recently even more than that.  So, no logging out and
19 back in or anything and here is where it is sitting at now. 
20
21
22 root     23338  0.0  0.0  54528 14400
23
24
25 It would appear that it is fixed.  It hasn't changed by even the
26 smallest amount.  It hasn't changed at all. 
27
28 < Dale does a little dance >
29
30 Thanks Joost.  You sending me to the sddm.log lead to the fix.  I have
31 no idea how the permissions got set wrong on the file tho.  I didn't
32 even know it existed.
33
34 Dale
35
36 :-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sddm-helper and high memory usage "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>