On 09/20/2019 08:34 AM, James Knott wrote:
I just noticed something curious. There has been another problem, which requires me to occasionally run the command "kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell". When I did that, swap dropped from about 3.6 G to 0.5.
This issue continues and I have not been able to find any app causing it. Swap keeps increasing, even though not all of the memory is being used. After killing and restarting the desktop swap is back to zero. I have tried killing individual apps and while that reduces memory use, it has little effect on swap.
That all seems to be pointing to one big shell that is filling swap. Is it possible that you may have an old config file (some tag-along from kde4) that might be giving plasma fits? (that's just a guess) If everybody isn't suffering the same gradual slowdown/freeze, then it has to be something unique to your config. I don't know of any quick way to find out what is in the swap file, maybe other can offer something there. If we can find out what data is filling it up, then that would at least point in the right direction. Something like an old screen saver, etc.. that the first part of the generic screen save module sets up and allocates for and then forks waiting on some signal to deallocate that never comes? Or maybe of a second display that is no longer there? Just grasping at straws, but it has to be something that is special about your (and a few others) setup. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org