Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge > amount of memory. I noticed it at one point and it was taking about > 8GBs. I killed it and restarted but it seems to keep happening after a > few hours. After I took a nap, I nudged the monitor back to the on > state only to notice it had eaten so much memory that the system killed > plasmashell and I had to restart it then. It also made other programs > go to swap since it was full as well. Glad the system dealt with it > instead of just crashing the whole thing. > > After I restart it, it goes back to normal, a few hundred megabytes, but > slowly starts increasing again. It gets old having to either logout or > restart the thing. > > Has anyone else noticed this happening on their systems? If not, I may > rename .kde4 and see if that helps. Maybe a bad or outdated config. > > Currently on: > > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5-r1 > > Was on: > > kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5 > > It seems it was a Gentoo upgrade based on the -r1. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Just a little update, a recent update seems to have corrected this issue. The update to 5.11.2 doesn't seem to have the same memory hog issue. If anyone else is having this issue, upgrade to that version and hopefully it will work like it should. Thanks to all for their replies. Dale :-) :-)
