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

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 04:03:14 BST Dale wrote:
>> P Levine wrote:
>>> ​AFAIK, plasma5 uses ~/.local and ~/​.config.
>> I wish I had read this earlier.  I keep forgetting that.  I've read it
>> before but I never seem to recall it when I really really need it.  If I
>> ever remember to do just those two files, I'll remember it most likely.
>> Big IF there.
> Having struggled monumentally with KMail over the last several months, I got
> fed up enough with setting up a new user from scratch that I now have a
> fresh user set up and ready to go. It has the few things I want to keep in
> my own account, and an empty directory structure for KMail. All I have to do
> is (re)move the old account, copy the ready account into place and go.
>
> That would be harder if I didn't have a ~/common partition containing
> everything I'd need if I installed another distro but without the version-
> specific KDE stuff. It's a hangover from the days when I hadn't settled on a
> single distro, but it's proved its worth this year.
>


I switched from Kmail ages ago.  I think it was because clicking links
was becoming a nightmare.  It's been so long, can't be sure.  I switched
to Seamonkey which means I shouldn't have to move emails unless I switch
email programs.  Of course, Seamonkey gets on my nerves at times too and
I figure at some point, I'm going to blast it with a cannon or something
right out the door. 

For some reason, the mv command did something weird.  For a bit there, I
thought I'd lost my emails.  However, I found them and copied them back
into the right place. 

I just wish I had either remembered or seen Levine's comment before I
did all that.  That could have saved me a lot of trouble.  Most likely
just renaming those two files would be a good test. 

BTW, I've already had to restart the plasma thing.  It was up to almost
20%.  Since I don't shutdown my puter, I kill it before I lay down for a
nap.  Restart it when I get up.  Hoping for a can of Raid soon.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)