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Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge |
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> amount of memory. I noticed it at one point and it was taking about |
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> 8GBs. I killed it and restarted but it seems to keep happening after a |
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> few hours. After I took a nap, I nudged the monitor back to the on |
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> state only to notice it had eaten so much memory that the system killed |
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> plasmashell and I had to restart it then. It also made other programs |
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> go to swap since it was full as well. Glad the system dealt with it |
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> instead of just crashing the whole thing. |
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> After I restart it, it goes back to normal, a few hundred megabytes, but |
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> slowly starts increasing again. It gets old having to either logout or |
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> restart the thing. |
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> Has anyone else noticed this happening on their systems? If not, I may |
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> rename .kde4 and see if that helps. Maybe a bad or outdated config. |
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> Currently on: |
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> kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5-r1 |
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> Was on: |
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> kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5 |
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> It seems it was a Gentoo upgrade based on the -r1. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Just a little update, a recent update seems to have corrected this |
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issue. The update to 5.11.2 doesn't seem to have the same memory hog |
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issue. If anyone else is having this issue, upgrade to that version and |
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hopefully it will work like it should. |
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Thanks to all for their replies. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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