https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454379
--- Comment #6 from Bacteria <dev.bacterios...@aleeas.com> --- (In reply to Firlaev-Hans from comment #5) > Could this be a duplicate of Bug 451631 ? > In that bug report I discovered that essentially the same thing happens not > when closing dolphin but rather after restarting plasmashell (including by > just rebooting or logging out and back in) when the top most item in the > clipboard is a file. But I can confirm that closing dolphin instead of > restarting Plasma produces the same results. > Clearing the clipboard or copying text makes plasmashell responsive again in > either case. > > Every time a slowdown happens, the following lines appear in the journal: > >plasmashell[1756]: QWaylandDataOffer: timeout reading from pipe > >plasmashell[1756]: QWaylandDataOffer: error reading data for mimeType > >application/x-kde-cutselection > > > But regarding what John described > >For me, using Kubuntu 21.10 on a BTRFS+Zstd partition and latest KDE Plasma > >from Kubuntu's backports PPA, > >I've seen KDE Plasma many times becoming very slow and even unresponsive to > >the point that everything freezes > >with heavy IO operations like copying many folders and files or extracting > >archives. > I believe that is a different issue. I encountered that at some point as > well when I copied hundreds of gigabytes to an external HDD, but I think > that's some KIO issue that causes a total freeze, rather than this issue > which seems to be the clipboards fault and only causes brief slowdowns. Indeed, bug 451631 looks like a duplicate. I will mark that one as duplicate of this one because of more consistent reproducing instructions. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.