Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:56:29 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> Well, I didn't know I could kill that thing.  I been logging out and
>> back in which annoys the stuffing out of me.  I have to close three
>> browsers, several file managers plus whatever else I am doing before I
>> can logout.  Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in.
> Why do you have to do that yourself? I'd have thought that sddm would take
> care of it for you. It does for me.

I have a saved session but if I restart everything at once, my internet
chokes and some tabs fail to load.  So, I have the basic stuff in a
saved session but still have to do some myself.  Of course I close stuff
before logging out just to be safe. 


>> On top of that, I have to wait for a download to stop as well.  Yea, it's
>> annoying, putting it mildly.  lol  I thought if I killed it, it would
>> take the whole GUI thingy with it .  Since it is still chewing away,
>> makes me think about the Pacman days, I'll kill that thing in a few
>> minutes, after closing important stuff first just in case.
> Whenever an update changes a lot of GUI stuff I drop to a VT and tell it "/etc/
> init.d/xdm restart && logout". That ought to be equivalent to killing sddm but
> kinder.
>


In this case, just logging out and right back in works.  The first time
I did it, I switched to a terminal and checked after logging out.  The
memory sddm was using was already down to almost nothing.  I knew then
that logging out and right back in was enough.  It only takes a few
seconds to log out and back in but it is annoying because at times, I
may have 40 tabs open.  Those have to reload as well which with my DSL,
takes a while. 

After a update, especially a KDE or qt update, I logout and go to boot
runlevel and back.  That restarts everything KDE plus others that may
need restarting as well.  I find some stuff is real touchy after updates. 

Dale

:-)  :-)