Bug 184394

Summary: Plasma use more memory over time
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Ronny Simonsen <ronny.simonsen>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: aseigo, karaluh, moonballoon
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ronny Simonsen 2009-02-15 14:30:47 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.96)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE4.2 RC1
GXF: Ati Mobility Radeon 9700 64MB
Driver: vesa (Ati driver doesnt work) No 3D or GL is working.

After a clean boot Plamsa uses ~10MB
Without using the computer the memory usage is increasing over time.
After 24hours Plasma use 130MB
After 5days Plasma uses 920MB of 1,2MB RAM
Computer become very slow because of lack of memory. Reboot is needed.

Widget(Plasmaoids) used:
- Desktop folder
- Analog Black clock
- Simple calculator
- Calender
- CPU usage and CPU temperature
Comment 1 karaluh 2009-02-26 11:32:46 UTC 
I can confirm this, Kubuntu Intrepid, KDE 4.2 from backports. Ati on fglrx, composition is off. User loged 24/7, computer used 8h/day.

Memory usage:
uptime 8:08 - 278 MB
uptime 23:59 - 767 MB - somewhere near this time it starts to leak to swap
uptime 1 day,  2:51 - 778 MB

Plasmoids:
Folder view
Panel
Screen lock
HW notifier
Digital and analog clock
Comic
Thrashcan
Task manager
Kicker
Pager
Show desktop
Systray
Comment 2 karaluh 2009-02-27 08:04:18 UTC 
It's propably a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183191
Comment 3 moonballoon 2009-04-15 01:24:25 UTC 
I'm pretty sure this is *not* a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183191 - the memory still leaks when the digital clock is removed, just more slowly.  It looks like the less widgets there are, the slower the leak, with some widgets possibly aggravating the problem more than others.  This is on Fedora 10 with only the task manager, system tray, and application launcher widgets left running at this point.  I originally went into more detail at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495468.
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-04-26 04:41:45 UTC 
"won't go chasin' waterfalls.." sing it with me: "vague reports with no way to reproduce aren't closable ..."

that said, we nailed a number of slow leaks, e.g. on each started job.