I' noticed that the plasmashell process steadily keeps increasing in memory usage in my laptop. Loggin in/out, frees the memory, and then it starts back.
Has anyone seen this? I tried removing widgets and using a static wallpaper, but still happens. If we don't shutdown, after a couple of days it is unusable. (Easily fixed, though.)
Here is some info on the system:
System: Host: e7440 Kernel: 4.15.13-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.3 (Qt 5.9.2)
Distro: siduction 15.1.0 Paint It Black - kde - (201601162135)
Machine: Device: laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E7440 v: 00 serial: N/A
Mobo: Dell model: 07F3F4 v: A00 serial: N/A BIOS: Dell v: A17 date: 12/01/2015
Battery BAT0: charge: 47.7 Wh 174.0% condition: 27.4/47.7 Wh (57%)
model: SMP DELL 909H538 status: Full
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i7-4600U (-MT-MCP-) arch: Haswell rev.1 cache: 4096 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 10774
clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 2700 MHz 2: 2696 MHz 3: 2881 MHz 4: 2697 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.02hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile
version: 4.5 Mesa 17.3.7 Direct Render: Yes
Network: Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection I218-LM
driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: down mac: 34:e6:d7:19:d5:4d
Card-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 48:51:b7:67:5b:a1
Drives: HDD Total Size: 256.1GB (75.4% used)
ID-1: model: SAMSUNG_SSD_PM85
Info: Processes: 271 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 6036.2/7888.0MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0 Client: Shell (bash 4.4.181) inxi: 2.3.56
For instance, now, after a few hours (5 or 6) htop shows plasmashell using 13.4% of the memory (8GB). (Again, this number will continue to increase until we logout.)
BTW, I also see this in my desktop running aptosid. (Also Intel video.)