Bug 382413

Summary: Severe memory leak with wallpaper set to slideshow
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Simon Yuan <siyuan.nz>
Component: Desktop ContainmentAssignee: Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs, rulatir, sonichedgehog_hyperblast00
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.10.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Simon Yuan 2017-07-16 21:18:49 UTC 
Plasmashell severely leaks memory when the wallpaper is configured as slideshow. Whenever the wallpaper changes, the memory usage goes up. The rate of the leak can be very steep with high resolution and/or dual monitor setup.

I'm not sure whether the memory leak is caused by plasmashell itself or a plugin, but I can literally watch the memory usage of plasmashell grow as the wallpaper change (either by the configured interval or manually).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Configure wallpaper as slideshow, for testing purposes, a short time out could be used, e.g. 1 sec.
2. Observe the memory usage of plasmashell: grep '^Vm' /proc/$(pidof plasmashell)/status
Comment 1 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2017-07-17 16:04:03 UTC 
I can confirm this.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2017-07-17 18:16:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 381000 ***