496405 2024-11-18 02:22:07 +0000 Memory leak in Plasma shell and other KDE applications 2025-06-30 03:47:25 +0000 1 1 4 Plasma plasmashell generic-performance 6.2.3 Arch Linux Linux RESOLVED WORKSFORME https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403563 NOR normal 1.0 0 bin.wang plasma-bugs-null heinep kde kdedev nate postix waclaw66 0 oldest_to_newest 2375201 0 bin.wang 2024-11-18 02:22:07 +0000 *** If you're not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org If you're reporting a crash, attach a backtrace with debug symbols; see https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports Please remove this comment after reading and before submitting - thanks! *** SUMMARY Plasma shell and other KDE applications using too much memory: ``` wangbin 672864 0.8 7.2 6562240 3595144 ? Ssl Nov16 17:03 /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn wangbin 760286 0.2 5.7 5532672 2816472 ? Ssl Nov16 5:07 /usr/bin/krunner --daemon wangbin 672846 0.2 5.0 3789384 2502220 ? Ssl Nov16 5:33 /usr/bin/kded6 wangbin 672916 0.2 4.8 3135384 2375968 ? Ssl Nov16 4:29 /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil ``` As shown above, plasmashell uses more than 3G memory while krunner and org_kde_powerdevil both uses more than 2G. Dolphin also used more than 2G before I close it. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use KDE for more than 1 day. OBSERVED RESULT Memory usage for Plasma shell and other KDE applications increased a lot. Especially weird for applications like "/usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil". EXPECTED RESULT It shouldn't use so much memory. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.9.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz Memory: 47.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Please let me know how to collect more data to debug it. 2375621 1 nate 2024-11-19 20:18:07 +0000 I notice your system has 47 Gb of memory. I suspect the system is simply noticing this and using more memory to speed things up. Is there an actual problem here? Is it causing any issues for you? 2375624 2 bin.wang 2024-11-19 20:25:31 +0000 Yes. Those kde applications + plasma shell combined sometimes uses more than 10G together. It eventually uses up to almost all available free memory and makes the system very slow, sometimes even freeze for a few seconds. 2375885 3 nate 2024-11-20 20:38:14 +0000 Ok, thanks. Sounds bad. 2377037 4 bin.wang 2024-11-26 00:09:33 +0000 Unlike in 485663, I don't even have `balooctl` installed and don't need to move large amount of files to trigger the memory leak. 2424699 5 nate 2025-05-16 15:24:20 +0000 Thanks again for the bug report, and sorry we weren't able to look into this yet. A lot of things have changed since this was reported; can I ask you to see if the problem still happens at all in Plasma 6.3.5 or later? Or if you can, the Plasma 6.4 beta would be even better. Thanks a lot! 2429236 6 bug-janitor 2025-05-31 03:47:41 +0000 🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. For more information about our bug triaging procedures, please read https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! 2429249 7 bin.wang 2025-05-31 03:49:40 +0000 This issue seems to be resolved. I don't see memory leak behavior anymore. 2433118 8 bug-janitor 2025-06-15 03:47:30 +0000 🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. For more information about our bug triaging procedures, please read https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! 2437383 9 bug-janitor 2025-06-30 03:47:25 +0000 🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.