Bug 436505

Summary:	Opening large file through dolphin causes large increase in dolphin memory use
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Paul <paulhollensen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.04.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Paul 2021-05-03 00:51:26 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open dolphin, memory use ~25MB
2. Click to open a large (e.g. 1GB) file in another program

OBSERVED RESULT
Dolphin memory usage jumps to >500MB.

EXPECTED RESULT
Memory use is not significantly affected by clicking to open a file in another program.

COMMENTS
I have observed this behavior also in Dolphin 20.12, and across multiple file types, such as an archive opened in Ark, and a video.  The detective work was done by another in bug 398908, and also reproduced by a third user.  In all cases, memory use did not increase if the file was opened via right click and selecting "Open with <program>" in the menu. I am creating this report because 398908 is a reopened bug from 3 years ago for a presumably unrelated issue.

KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

Comment 1 Paul 2021-06-12 20:03:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398908 ***