plasmashell memory leak?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sat Oct 3 15:52:07 UTC 2015



Am 03.10.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Rex Dieter:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> Am 03.10.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Rex Dieter:
>>> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I can't remember if this issue has been mentioned before on this list
>>>> but my plasmashell now has a VIRT size of 18g and a resident size of
>>>> 0.010t, according to top.
>>>>
>>>> Seems a little excessive! Time to logout I suppose.
>>>
>>> Are you using any non qt5 apps with animating systray icons?  That seems
>>> to be one common source for leaks.
>>
>> sounds like a KDE4 bug got re-introduced
>>
>> i remember a time where kopete waiting for the other side to accept a
>> sent file with the spinning icon produced leaks and made the machine
>> unuseable in a short time
>>
>> but that was fixed long ago
>
> Do you recall if that documented anywhere?  bug #?

that is more than 2 years in the past

> To my knowledge, in general (not specific to kopete) I recall seeing bugs
> continue to get filed on issues throughout kde4's lifetime, but it *seemed*
> be indicative of application bugs (like this kopete case), and not a plasma
> bug.

well, i always hear "the graphics drivers" and "the applications fault".....

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