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From: P Levine <plevine457@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory.
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:00:12
Message-Id: CADX8ZB+S3MRU2=xPPTjUTh4gKMSV3syJ=e2G+E8pBybu9N5-QA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasmashell consuming huge amounts of memory. by Dale
1 On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > After another round of google searches, startpage
4 > actually, I found where someone posted that having a slideshow causes
5 > this. I switched from slideshow to something else and sure enough, it
6 > hasn't hogged up memory, yet anyway.
7 >
8 > So, disable slideshow until this gets fixed and at least you don't have
9 > to worry about it hogging up every last bit of memory.
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12 ​I vaguely
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14 ​remember reading that the problem might be related to plasmashell ​loading
15 all available slideshow wallpapers into memory. If you really want
16 slideshow, maybe as a possible workaround you can see if limiting the
17 number of wallpapers used with slideshow reduces memory consumption.

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