SUMMARY If you configure your desktop to use a slideshow wallpaper with a large image folder as its source, plasmashell will continue growing to gigabytes of RAM. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right-click the desktop > Desktop and wallpaper. 2. Set the wallpaper type to Slideshow, add a single large image directory as source. 3. Set the change interval to something low, like 1-2 seconds, to speed things up. It's not a requirement, though: with a longer update interval, it will still happen, just later. OBSERVED RESULT plasmashell's memory usage will quickly grow to gigabytes. Change the wallpaper type to just Image to stop it, before it's too late! EXPECTED RESULT plasmashell's memory usage stays around the same level over time. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240418 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 Kernel Version: 6.8.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 32 × Intel® Core™ i9-14900K Memory: 62.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This seems to be a duplicate of this one #480693 [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480693] *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480693 ***