On Fedora 25 and from plasma-workspace 5.8.4 on, ksmserver uses more and more memory. Eventually (several days), it has consumed so much memory that the systems grinds to a halt (until it is killed by oomkiller). Long before then, screen locking stops working (that is, the computer is not locked after waking from standby, which makes me extremely nervous). Reboot fixes the issue for a while. For example, after 17:36 hours of activity, ksmserver uses 2,5Gb of memory. Screen locking does not work anymore. ps -eo rss,pid,user,command --sort -rss | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) { printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' | head -n2 0.00 Mb COMMAND 2616.69 Mb /usr/bin/ksmserver journalctl --since "today" | grep ksmserver Dez 05 06:36:23 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: QXcbWindow: Unhandled client message: "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" Dez 05 06:49:59 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: QXcbWindow: Unhandled client message: "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" Dez 05 06:52:23 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: QXcbWindow: Unhandled client message: "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" Dez 05 06:54:17 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: QXcbWindow: Unhandled client message: "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" Dez 05 07:00:38 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: Greeter Process not available Dez 05 07:00:43 jjacobsohn systemd-logind[15701]: Delay lock is active (UID 1000/jjacobsohn, PID 16366/ksmserver) but inhibitor timeout is reached. Dez 05 07:54:07 jjacobsohn ksmserver[16366]: Greeter Process not available Dez 05 07:54:12 jjacobsohn systemd-logind[15701]: Delay lock is active (UID 1000/jjacobsohn, PID 16366/ksmserver) but inhibitor timeout is reached. Is there anything I could do to help fix the issue? If it helps, I could try to compile and bisect ksmserver.
This problem persists in 5.8.5
I can confirm this bug, randomly after several hours ksmserver eats too much ram, for example on systems with 4 Gb ram ksmserver can eat 3 Gb, which can cause swap disk operatin, and slowdown the PC, I use archlinux 64 bits, plasma 5.9.3-1
I can confirm this bug. After 15 days, in my workstation, the ksmserver process is using 20GB of RAM. Is there a way to debug this leak? Thanks... I'm using Debian Testing with plasma-workspace 4:5.8.4-1 (amd64).
Confirmed, ksmserver on my desktop is using about 6.9 GB RAM right now... I've only been logged in for about two hours. I also happen to use Fedora, and this persists in package plasma-workspace-5.8.6 # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/ksmserver plasma-workspace-5.8.6-6.fc25.x86_64 KiB Mem : 16400052 total, 3828064 free, 9202236 used, 3369752 buff/cache PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7943 fuzzy 39 19 9.875g 6.756g 23496 S 0.0 43.2 4:26.76 ksmserver ...or, as another person expressed it, # ps -eo rss,pid,user,command --sort -rss | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) { printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' | head -n2 0.00 Mb COMMAND 6918.64 Mb /usr/bin/ksmserver My system: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz,16 GB RAM, and in case it's relevant, nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB) (and nvidia's drivers, version 375.39)
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*** Bug 378551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've noticed this issue on several of out test system. We are using plasma-workspace 5.8.6 on Intel Skylake based platforms. Usually the memory grows a few hundreds of byte per minute. Sometimes it grows much faster. No special processes are running, just plain KDE desktop. The issue wasn't observed on other (older) Intel platforms. The issue wasn't observed in case the desktop is started on a VNC session. I noticed that stopping the plasmashell process (using SIGSTOP) stops the ksmserver memory from growing. I suspect it's some kind of bug in the plasmashell that only exists on some display drivers. As the display driver might be related adding some debug infos: * Mesa * Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086) * Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) (0x1912) * Version: 17.0.4 * modeset driver
I could reproduce the issue: Moving the mouse over plasmashell's tray icons or startmenu entries causes the memory in ksmserver to rise. By looking at plasmashell's output I found thousands of "_xgeWireToEvent: Unknown extension 148, this should never happen.". By redirecting plasmashell's output to /dev/null the issue no longer occurs. It looks like ksmserver doesn't read/discard the spawned child's output, but collects them in some internal buffer. The hotfix for me is to install libXext 1.3.3. But it just covers the bug, as other applications could spam a lot and cause a memory bloat in ksmserver.
Output handling was changing in 5.8.7 onwards. Please reopen if you still have this issue.
Hi, I can confirm this bug, too on intel J1900 platform / and plasma 5.8.6(opensuse 42.2). after two days , the ksmserver uses 57% of ram. Nobody uses the system. The only thing I found in journalctl is oomkiller messages : pt. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Killed process 1418 (plasmashell) total-vm:3196376kB, anon-rss:74220kB, file-rss:15936kB sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Purging GPU memory, 0 bytes freed, 5283840 bytes still pinned. sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Qt bearer threa invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, oom_score_adj=0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Qt bearer threa cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU: 2 PID: 1464 Comm: Qt bearer threa Not tainted 3.18.20cobalt #1 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./Aptio CRB, BIOS 5.6.5 02/04/2015 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff880037504648 ffffffff814252d9 ffff880037504000 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: ffffffff81422c4d 0000000000000401 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: ffff8800a186faf8 0000000000000000 ffffffffa02326b3 0000000000000000 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Call Trace: sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff814252d9>] ? dump_stack+0x49/0x6a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff81422c4d>] ? dump_header.isra.8+0x73/0x1e0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffffa02326b3>] ? i915_gem_shrinker_oom+0x179/0x1aa [i915] sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff81428ee5>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xc/0x1f sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810c3550>] ? oom_kill_process+0x70/0x322 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8103d6e9>] ? has_ns_capability_noaudit+0x32/0x3d sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810c3d97>] ? out_of_memory+0x438/0x451 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810c75bd>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5fa/0x641 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff81244db1>] ? radix_tree_lookup_slot+0x10/0x23 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810ed195>] ? alloc_pages_current+0xaf/0xcc sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810c2a2f>] ? filemap_fault+0x218/0x36c sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810d9b84>] ? __do_fault+0x33/0x82 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810dae9b>] ? do_read_fault.isra.84+0x18e/0x21a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8142a440>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x60/0x90 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810dc44d>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x14e/0x8e6 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8102dabf>] ? __do_page_fault+0x26a/0x34a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8106a14c>] ? rcu_irq_exit+0xf/0x5f sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810248c1>] ? __ipipe_do_IRQ+0x6f/0x7a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff81097fe3>] ? __ipipe_get_current_domain+0x5/0xd sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff81097fe3>] ? __ipipe_get_current_domain+0x5/0xd sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff810248c7>] ? __ipipe_do_IRQ+0x75/0x7a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8102dbf1>] ? do_page_fault+0x37/0x5a sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [<ffffffff8142b1d2>] ? page_fault+0x22/0x60 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Mem-Info: sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 2: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 3: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 58 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 169 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 28 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 49 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 Normal per-cpu: sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 29 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 69 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 2: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 30 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: CPU 3: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 59 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: active_anon:771616 inactive_anon:54480 isolated_anon:0 active_file:96 inactive_file:85 isolated_file:0 unevictable:127551 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:6727 slab_reclaimable:3261 slab_unreclaimable:7521 mapped:34939 shmem:58310 pagetables:7377 bounce:0 free_cma:0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA free:15352kB min:28kB low:32kB high:40kB active_anon:216kB inactive_anon:116kB active_file:4kB inactive_file:4kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15920kB managed:15836kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB wr sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2874 3832 3832 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:9664kB min:5928kB low:7408kB high:8892kB active_anon:2312232kB inactive_anon:165388kB active_file:244kB inactive_file:388kB unevictable:391440kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3020080kB managed:2946292 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 958 958 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 Normal free:1892kB min:1976kB low:2468kB high:2964kB active_anon:774016kB inactive_anon:52416kB active_file:136kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:118764kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:1048576kB managed:981700kB m sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA: 2*4kB (UM) 3*8kB (UE) 4*16kB (UM) 1*32kB (E) 2*64kB (UE) 2*128kB (EM) 2*256kB (UE) 2*512kB (EM) 3*1024kB (UEM) 3*2048kB (EMR) 1*4096kB (M) = 15360kB sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 1444*4kB (UE) 0*8kB 2*16kB (R) 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB (R) 0*256kB 1*512kB (R) 1*1024kB (R) 1*2048kB (R) 0*4096kB = 9520kB sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 Normal: 404*4kB (UER) 6*8kB (R) 2*16kB (R) 2*32kB (R) 1*64kB (R) 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1824kB sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: 84045 total pagecache pages sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: 1021144 pages RAM ...skipping... sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1388] 1000 1388 843624 687423 1526 0 0 ksmserver sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1393] 1000 1393 132393 2323 170 0 0 kaccess sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1396] 0 1396 56628 2001 41 0 0 upowerd sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1412] 1000 1412 129704 3168 166 0 0 kglobalaccel5 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1413] 1000 1413 751667 6461 234 0 0 kwin_x11 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1416] 1000 1416 163288 3289 198 0 0 kdeconnectd sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1417] 1000 1417 197681 8377 256 0 0 krunner sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1421] 1000 1421 170058 3506 179 0 0 polkit-kde-auth sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1423] 1000 1423 68189 1415 35 0 0 gvfsd sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1424] 1000 1424 129505 2640 166 0 0 xembedsniproxy sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1432] 1000 1432 106003 1677 41 0 0 gvfsd-fuse sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1450] 1000 1450 44582 1114 23 0 0 dconf-service sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1468] 1000 1468 3281 510 11 0 0 interface_machi sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1470] 1000 1470 17643 4216 39 0 0 x11vnc sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1472] 1000 1472 167879 3460 178 0 0 org_kde_powerde sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1491] 1000 1491 112158 4667 141 0 0 smb4k sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1494] 1000 1494 208401 2748 185 0 0 kactivitymanage sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1515] 1000 1515 129611 3104 167 0 0 kactivitymanage sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1586] 0 1586 10668 6063 26 0 0 creven sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1595] 1000 1595 85623 1540 90 0 0 kscreen_backend sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1609] 0 1609 3054 288 11 0 0 numalliance_CN6 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1610] 0 1610 3054 224 11 0 0 numalliance_CN6 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1612] 0 1612 10598 5993 26 0 0 onsigterm sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1613] 0 1613 10604 5982 26 0 0 compiler sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1614] 0 1614 1052 184 8 0 0 tee sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1633] 0 1633 33613 9668 40 0 0 automat sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1634] 0 1634 1052 180 8 0 0 tee sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1641] 1000 1641 129603 3107 166 0 0 kuiserver5 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1693] 1000 1693 3281 240 11 0 0 interface_machi sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1695] 1000 1695 3281 333 11 0 0 interface_machi sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1697] 1000 1697 3281 333 11 0 0 interface_machi sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1699] 1000 1699 118615 18692 195 0 0 python sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1700] 1000 1700 3281 78 10 0 0 interface_machi sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1704] 1000 1704 10614 6009 26 0 0 traite_defauts sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1705] 1000 1705 1441 317 7 0 0 tee sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1709] 1000 1709 300091 100336 405 0 0 python sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1747] 1000 1747 47769 10929 69 0 0 python sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1750] 1000 1750 135725 12768 165 0 0 onboard sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1758] 1000 1758 88854 1893 42 0 0 at-spi-bus-laun sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1763] 1000 1763 9903 912 24 0 0 dbus-daemon sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1765] 1000 1765 48677 1205 32 0 0 at-spi2-registr sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [29707] 1000 29707 139327 9349 167 0 0 emacs-gtk sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [29719] 1000 29719 10366 942 24 0 0 gconfd-2 sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 1733] 0 1733 28995 458 23 0 0 lvmetad sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 5862] 0 5862 52324 1214 39 0 0 nm-dispatcher sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 5871] 0 5871 2945 73 11 0 0 nfs sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: [ 5872] 0 5872 6295 328 16 0 0 systemctl sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 1388 (ksmserver) score 698 or sacrifice child sept. 05 02:03:22 linux-qhf9 kernel: Killed process 1417 (krunner) total-vm:790724kB, anon-rss:17548kB, file-rss:15960kB I will try migrating oepnsuse 42.3 plasma 5.8.7