I also see this memory leak with the nvidia driver v346 and the nouveau driver as well, so no real difference here for me.
What we probably need is a backport of these two patches mentioned in this KDE bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344879#c122 otherwise plasmashell will continue to eat more and more memory with every plasma screen update, like opening a plasmoid, systray item menu, etc. I tried Fedora 24, which is build against QT 5.6 and it does not suffer from this problem. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #344879 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344879 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502556 Title: major memory leak on plasmashell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1502556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
