Created attachment 121828 [details] screenshot SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 0. swapoff -a 1. Start Krusader 2. Press F9 / Click 'F9 Term' 3. Start some background process in console OBSERVED RESULT Krusader consumes up to 1.5 GiB RAM EXPECTED RESULT Krusader frees some RAM SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE 15.0, fresh KDE from BuildService KDE Plasma Version: 19.07.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60.0 Qt Version: 5.13.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Is this still an issue with Krusader version 2.8.1? I could reproduce the behavior and the Konsole instance is not a child of the Krusader process. What are the background processes that are strarted?
Couldn't reproduce with Krusader 2.8.1 Any 'hard on RAM' app the Konsole can start is fine. At the time of filing the bug I ran multiple java -jar ... & E.g., pick a ...tar.gz of IDEA Community that suits your PC's architecture, extract somewhere, cd to bin/ dir, run ./idea & from Konsole. No need to install Java ecosystem tools or open any project, as idle IDEA will consume 1GiB+ of RAM