If you're using a slideshow as wallpaper or in a photo frame widget, then you're hitting https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368838. If so, try running plasmashell with "QSG_RENDER_LOOP=threaded" and see if that fixes the issue (and let us know if it does!).
Nate ---- On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:05:39 -0700 Yunhe Guo wrote ---- >check if you are using some widgets. Remove all of them and see if that helps. > >Another thing to check is to use a single static image as wallpaper. > > >You need to tell your plasma and framework version. > > >Jonathan Willis <quicksilver...@gmail.com> 于 2018年3月26日周一 23:55写道: > >I couldn't find a bug ticket service for kde plasma development, so apologies >if this is the wrong place. > > >I'm running into a major memory leak running kde plasma. After a few hours the >desktop environment consume about 20GB of RAM and continues to consume another >15GB of swap space. After that my operating system has to kill off >applications to make space. I added a couple snapshots to show you that >killing off the plasmashell reclaims the memory used. > > >I'm running a thinkpad t570 with two monitors daisy chained to my laptop. > > > >