plasmashell memory leak?

[Roderick Johnstone]

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.

Roderick

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/03/2015 05:05 PM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> 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.

FWIW....

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ uptime -p
up 2 weeks, 2 hours, 22 minutes

And I've not logged out.  My plasmashell shows 4.5g VIRT, 271M RES.

[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.

-- Rex

[Reindl Harald]

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

[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 #?

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.

-- Rex

[Reindl Harald]

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".....

[Rex Dieter]

Reindl Harald wrote:
> 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".....

Yes, especially when it's true and where you gave a specific example 
(kopete) where it was the application's fault.

-- Rex

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 03/10/2015 14:49, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Roderick
> -- Rex