Bug 480969 - Recording tanks the CPU and uses all of RAM eventually leading to an unusable system
Summary: Recording tanks the CPU and uses all of RAM eventually leading to an unusable...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 23.08.4
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-06 18:38 UTC by others.d79ox
Modified: 2024-02-15 02:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Latest Commit:
Version Fixed/Implemented In: 24.02
Sentry Crash Report:

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Description others.d79ox 2024-02-06 18:38:44 UTC 
Created attachment 165625 [details]
Screenshot of btop with spectacle usage

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start a recording on a Windows
2. Wait for less than 10 seconds
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Spectacle process takes more than 16GB of RAM and 100% CPU
It is impossible to stop the recording without killing the spectacle process
EXPECTED RESULT
The recording should have normal ram usage and use a lot less CPU and it should be stoppable.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.114.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-02-15 02:47:26 UTC 
This has been fixed for the upcoming 24.02 release.