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

[Dale]

Howdy,

I been noticing that sddm is using a lot of memory.  In the past, it
would use a few hundred megabytes but nothing out of the norm for a GUI
command.  This is what ps aux shows.



USER       PID   %CPU %MEM    VSZ       RSS      TTY  STAT START   TIME
COMMAND
root       19256  1.0    10.3   3443932 3400112 ?     S    02:40   6:36
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper --socket
/tmp/sddm-auth8e2859d9-6da1-4071-b479-b9caa969c3d8 --id 1 --start
/usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user dale



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??

When I first login, it is using the normal amount of memory. It seems to
build up from there.  Once it hits around 13 or 14%, it seems to stop
using any more.  I've let it run for a while and it seems to stop there. 

I'm pretty sure I upgraded sddm the other day.  This is where I'm at
right now.

kde-plasma/sddm-kcm-5.18.4.1
x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r1

Is anyone else noticing this?  I would go back a version but it is
masked, I'm assuming it has some known issues that may be worse than this. 

I might add, while I normally switch to the boot runlevel and back again
after a upgrade, I did have to shutdown last night.  I was trying to
replace my UPS batteries.  My new batteries are about 1/4" to tall.  New
set on the way.  Anyway, it is doing this even after a fresh power up.

I did a bug search on BGO but didn't see anything like this.

Any ideas? 

Dale

:-)  :-)