Bug 486175

Summary:	Slideshow wallpapers leak memory
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Ilya Bizyaev <bizyaev>
Component:	Image & Slideshow wallpaper plugins	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	0vinoth0kumar0, notmart, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ilya Bizyaev 2024-04-26 21:32:37 UTC

SUMMARY
If you configure your desktop to use a slideshow wallpaper with a large image folder as its source, plasmashell will continue growing to gigabytes of RAM.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right-click the desktop > Desktop and wallpaper.
2. Set the wallpaper type to Slideshow, add a single large image directory as source.
3. Set the change interval to something low, like 1-2 seconds, to speed things up. It's not a requirement, though: with a longer update interval, it will still happen, just later.

OBSERVED RESULT
plasmashell's memory usage will quickly grow to gigabytes. Change the wallpaper type to just Image to stop it, before it's too late!

EXPECTED RESULT
plasmashell's memory usage stays around the same level over time.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240418
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Kernel Version: 6.8.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × Intel® Core™ i9-14900K
Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 vinkmr 2024-05-07 11:39:55 UTC

This seems to be a duplicate of this one #480693 [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480693]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480693 ***