Bug 391377

Summary: Memory leak on wallpaper change
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Andrey <andreyorst>
Component: Image WallpaperAssignee: Marco Martin <notmart>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.12.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: result of walpaper switching

Description Andrey 2018-03-04 13:02:03 UTC
Created attachment 111173 [details]
result of walpaper switching

Open Plasma Desktop Settings and add some 4k wallpapers. Then start switching them by simply selecting and applying you can reach 1GB or more plasmashel memory usage.

Distro: Arch linux
KDE Plasma: 5.12.2
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2018-03-04 15:24:28 UTC
Likely dup of bug #368838 (wallpaper slideshow in that case)

Feel free to re-open if you have evidence this is different

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368838 ***