Bug 485663 - Plasmashell memory leak when moving many files from one directory to another
Summary: Plasmashell memory leak when moving many files from one directory to another
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: generic-performance (show other bugs)
Version: 5.27.11
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-04-17 08:06 UTC by Florian Mann
Modified: 2025-02-20 16:40 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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2024-04-17 08:06 UTC, Florian Mann 		Details
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Description Florian Mann 2024-04-17 08:06:03 UTC 
Created attachment 168604 [details]
~/.config/plasmashellrc

SUMMARY

I moved approx. 10000 files from one directory to another. The baloo file indexer was using a lot of cpu and memory resources, so I killed it manually.
Since then the plasmashell process is leaking memory. Memory consumption grows about 1G per minute until the systems hangs eventually.

Things I tried:

- Restarting plasmashell
- Reboot
- Deleted the approx. 10000 files which started the problem
- Update from 5.27.10 to 5.27.11
- balooctl disable
- balooctl purge

Plasmashell is still leaking memory after every single step.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Move >10000 files
2. Observe plasmashell memory consumption

OBSERVED RESULT
Memory consumption of plasmashell grows about 1GB per minute

EXPECTED RESULT
Stable memory consumption

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Kernel Version: 6.6.26-1-MANJARO
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I'll provide whatever information necessary. At the moment I don't know where to start.
Comment 1 waclaw66 2024-11-20 06:37:35 UTC 
I'm having this issue after update to Fedora 41 using X11. plasmashell, org_kde_powerdevil and kded6 consuming all the memory (32GB) within two days.