The process plasmashell (with pid 26726) is using approximately 12.8 GB of memory. Of 15.4G system memory Take only minutes to consume 14G of memory and system become unusable I do daily update & upgrade to system Linux madmax 4.12.1-041201-generic #201707121132 SMP Wed Jul 12 15:34:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux plasmashell --version QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' plasmashell 5.10.3
Do you have your wallpaper set to slideshoe?
Created attachment 106666 [details] Massif snapshots of the plasmashell. Hi guys. I happen to have an exactly the same problem, and yes, I do change wallpapers. Actually I've made some measurements while changing them (and then resting for a while) with the Massif tool (valgrind). Could you please have a look? I've tried to do a research but I know too little about how Qt handles graphics so it's not that obvious for me. Having said that, it's still pretty obvious that a memory passed to nvidia libgl (in my case) is never freed.
(In reply to Dan from comment #0) > The process plasmashell (with pid 26726) is using approximately 12.8 GB of > memory. > Of 15.4G system memory > Take only minutes to consume 14G of memory and system become unusable > I do daily update & upgrade to system > > Linux madmax 4.12.1-041201-generic #201707121132 SMP Wed Jul 12 15:34:46 UTC > 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > plasmashell --version > > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' > > QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' > > plasmashell 5.10.3 Yes, I also run slideshow on two monitors Nice work on your failure analysis Please fix
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 381000 ***