Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sddm-helper and high memory usage
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 04:08:41
Message-Id: CF66D595-64A8-43B7-81CF-9E3D08996824@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sddm-helper and high memory usage by Dale
1 On 21 May 2020 02:54:44 CEST, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >Dale wrote:
3 >>
4 >>
5 >> Next time, that's the plan.  So far tho, it is working fine.  This is
6 >> what ps shows:
7 >>
8 >> root     23338  0.0  0.0  54528 14400
9 >>
10 >> It hasn't changed since I logged in.  It's hasn't increased even one
11 >> byte.  Usually by now it would be up to a few 100MBs or so. 
12 >>
13 >> Dale
14 >>
15 >> :-)  :-) 
16 >
17 >
18 >It's been several hours now.  Usually by now it would be well over a
19 >Gigabyte and more recently even more than that.  So, no logging out and
20 >back in or anything and here is where it is sitting at now. 
21 >
22 >
23 >root     23338  0.0  0.0  54528 14400
24 >
25 >
26 >It would appear that it is fixed.  It hasn't changed by even the
27 >smallest amount.  It hasn't changed at all. 
28 >
29 >< Dale does a little dance >
30 >
31 >Thanks Joost.  You sending me to the sddm.log lead to the fix.  I have
32 >no idea how the permissions got set wrong on the file tho.  I didn't
33 >even know it existed.
34 >
35 >Dale
36 >
37 >:-)  :-)
38
39 You're welcome.
40 I didn't know about a logfile buried inside the hone directory either and that is not something I am happy with.
41
42 Will be something I need to look into and hopefully change.
43
44 --
45 Joost
46 --
47 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.