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

[Dale]

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

:-)  :-)