Bug 339896 - High memory usage by plasmashell
Summary: High memory usage by plasmashell
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Sebastian Kügler
URL: http://pastebin.com/cEcfsEMY
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Reported: 2014-10-12 06:00 UTC by Lane Wiscombe
Modified: 2017-07-17 18:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Lane Wiscombe 2014-10-12 06:00:59 UTC 
I am on a multiple monitor setup with kubuntu plasma5, seems like the shell would get high memory usage alot over 500 MB and my mouse will start stuttering for a while then it will stop... I am on a AMD FX 6300 CPU, Nvidia 660 gtx with driver version 343.22, and I have 8 Gb of DDR3 RAM.. Full Specs

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/anex/saved/zYGxFT

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1Fresh install of kubuntu 14.10 with multiple monitors.
2.Open all my working programs
3.Start working

Actual Results:  
plasmashell will occasonally start spiking memory usage and calm down.

Expected Results:  
not hog 500 MB of memory
Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2014-10-14 08:59:12 UTC 
Can you identify the steps leading to that sudden memory spike? When your mouse starts stuttering, can you check what process is hogging your cpu?
Comment 2 Lane Wiscombe 2014-12-24 19:44:39 UTC 
this is old and has resolved its self with updates, thx guys..
Comment 3 Dan 2017-07-13 17:27:33 UTC 
This is not resolved with the latest updates
Plasmashell using 14.6G out of system memory 15.6G
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2017-07-17 18:14:52 UTC 
Dan, high memory consumption caused by Qt 5.9 updates with slideshow images are tracked at bug 381000. If you do not use the slideshow wallpaper, please report a new ticket.
Comment 5 Dan 2017-07-17 18:18:03 UTC 
Created attachment 106682 [details]
attachment-32430-0.html

Hi Chris,

I do use slideshow on both monitors.

Dan

On 07/17/2017 02:14 PM, Christoph Feck wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339896
>
> --- Comment #4 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> ---
> Dan, high memory consumption caused by Qt 5.9 updates with slideshow images are
> tracked at bug 381000. If you do not use the slideshow wallpaper, please report
> a new ticket.
>