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

[Michael]

On Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:14:05 BST Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > <<<SNIP>>>
> > When it did this the other day, I closed all my programs so I could
> > logout, reset and log back in again.  After I hit logout, I noticed the
> > little memory usage meter on the bottom of my screen was down to a more
> > normal level.  It was already logging me out so to late to stop it.  It
> > seems that it dropped after I closed Firefox.  I tend to have two
> > profiles running and they use quite a bit of memory on their own.  The
> > new thing is sddm using this much as well.  Could Firefox have some
> > effect on this??
> >
> > <<<SNIP>>>
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> Ignore the part about Firefox.  I noticed it was up to about 4.3GBs or
> 13.5% again and closed all my browsers.  After that was done and it
> settled a bit, it was using the same amount of memory.  Closing my
> browsers has no effect on it's memory usage.  Logging out and back in
> again, back to normal.  I'm sure it will start rising again tho.
>
> Still curious to see if anyone else has this issue or has a idea on how
> to fix it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

I'm running stable here and have not noticed sddm eating up much memory on a 
single user PC with 16G RAM.  I'm not running FF at this moment, but Kmail, 
plus a tonne of akonadi sql processes, plus gkrellms.  However, sddm shouldn't 
be consuming much RAM beyond passing authentication credentials to X and 
starting a session, dynamically pulling in dbus & syslog.

My sddm config has not been changed from defaults, but I have switched the 
theme to Elarun via Plasma's SystemSettings.  I use no icon for avatar.  The X 
session memory usage changes, but sddm is pretty much stable from what I 
observed.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      3822  0.0  0.0 136480 15324 ?        Ssl  15:37   0:00 /usr/bin/sddm
root      3888  4.1  0.5 1384204 85148 tty7    Ssl+ 15:37   1:42 /usr/bin/X -
nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{long_string_here} -background none -noreset 
-displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7
sddm      3961  0.0  0.0   4552  2264 ?        S    15:37   0:00 dbus-launch 
--autolaunch long_string_here --binary-syntax --close-stderr
sddm      3962  0.0  0.0   3868  1948 ?        Ss   15:37   0:00 /usr/bin/
dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
root      4030  0.0  0.0  54516 14020 ?        S    15:38   0:00 /usr/libexec/
sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth0472070a-360a-4d6f-9715-b06b8f18b464 --id 1 
--start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user michael
michael  10000  0.0  0.0   7964   752 pts/1    S+   16:18   0:00 /bin/grep -E 
--colour=auto --color=auto USER|sddm