| Summary: | Plasmashell process consumes huge amount of RAM after couple of days of running. | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Venca B Spam <vbspam> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | David Edmundson <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | gfdsa, kishore96, nate, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.12.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Script which kills plasmashell when system hits low memory threshold. | ||
The apps you use are not super relevant. How about any non-default widgets or themes? Are you using any of those? Or Kvantum? Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! |
Created attachment 112924 [details] Script which kills plasmashell when system hits low memory threshold. Plasmashell process consumes huge amount of RAM after couple of days of running. I run the KDE Neon Ubuntu. When I do not reboot or re-login for day or two, the plasmashell process eats huge amount of memory. In my system with 16GB memory it is not obvious immediately, but my girlfriend has 12GB system and she suffers with this issue very frequently. It is even more annoying on systems with 4GB of RAM (e.g. my old laptop I use as home entertainment station). It is not obvious why is this happening. We almost not use GNOME apps (except some with no KDE alternatives). Basically we just use Thunderbird, Chromium browser, Inkscape, Gwenview, Gimp, Krita, VSCode and Nextcloud client. (For those who suffers this too, attached script kills plasmashell when system hits low memory threshold.Started when KDE starts does not slow the system and saves your work just before the system starts to be frozen. Can be targeted to other process, but plasmashell is in 90% the cause on my system and other processes may contain valuable data.) Unfortunately I did not find any way how to reproduce, I just install the default KDE Neon and work with the system for a day. It happens on any system I have at home.