Bug 480969

Summary:	Recording tanks the CPU and uses all of RAM eventually leading to an unusable system
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	others.d79ox
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.08.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	24.02
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot of btop with spectacle usage

Description others.d79ox 2024-02-06 18:38:44 UTC

Created attachment 165625 [details]
Screenshot of btop with spectacle usage

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start a recording on a Windows
2. Wait for less than 10 seconds
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Spectacle process takes more than 16GB of RAM and 100% CPU
It is impossible to stop the recording without killing the spectacle process
EXPECTED RESULT
The recording should have normal ram usage and use a lot less CPU and it should be stoppable.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.114.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-02-15 02:47:26 UTC

This has been fixed for the upcoming 24.02 release.