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

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> P Levine wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
>> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>>wrote:
>>
>>     After another round of google searches, startpage
>>     actually, I found where someone posted that having a slideshow causes
>>     this.  I switched from slideshow to something else and sure
>>     enough, it
>>     hasn't hogged up memory, yet anyway. 
>>
>>     So, disable slideshow until this gets fixed and at least you
>>     don't have
>>     to worry about it hogging up every last bit of memory. 
>>
>>  
>> ​I vaguely
>>  
>> ​remember reading that the problem might be related to plasmashell
>> ​loading all available slideshow wallpapers into memory.   If you
>> really want slideshow, maybe as a  possible workaround you can see if
>> limiting the number of wallpapers used with slideshow reduces memory
>> consumption.
>>
>
> That would be possible I guess.  Thing is, I have a lot of wallpapers,
> some hi-res large ones that came from NASA at that.  If it tried to
> load them all, I'd had to have a lot more memory.  I think I have over
> 20GBs worth of them.  Currently I have 16GBs of memory.  I'm going to
> upgrade one of these days tho.  My mobo can handle 32GBs but even
> then, I wouldn't want plasmashell to take up that much memory. 
>
> I can test this theory tho.  I can pick a small directory and let it
> cycle through them.  If it is loading them like you read, then it
> shouldn't use more than the space the wallpaper files take up.  If it
> is something else, then it should get real hoggy again.  Spellchecker
> doesn't like my new word hoggy.  lol 
>
> I'm going to test that and see what happens.  I'll post the results,
> just in case someone runs up on this thread, and on the bug report as
> well.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 


Well, that didn't take long.  I found a directory that was about 1.6GBs
of wallpapers.  It should not use more than a little over 2GBs of memory
even if it loads all the files in memory.  Well, it took up right at
3GBs in a short period of time.  That would put it using well over what
it normally uses plus the directory.  Usually, it uses about 300MBs at
start up.  Add to that the 1.6GBs and you end up with about 2GBs or so. 
Since it was quickly approaching 3GBs, it was well past that. 

I'm not sure what it is doing but even if it is loading the wallpapers
up, it is doing something else in addition to that. 

I was hoping we were on to something.  Oh well.  It was worth a try.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)