On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > After another round of google searches, startpage > actually, I found where someone posted that having a slideshow causes > this. I switched from slideshow to something else and sure enough, it > hasn't hogged up memory, yet anyway. > > So, disable slideshow until this gets fixed and at least you don't have > to worry about it hogging up every last bit of memory.
I vaguely remember reading that the problem might be related to plasmashell loading all available slideshow wallpapers into memory. If you really want slideshow, maybe as a possible workaround you can see if limiting the number of wallpapers used with slideshow reduces memory consumption.
