On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> wrote:
El 18/04/14 14:46, Lars Kruczynski escribió:
So is it normal behavior for plasma-desktop to balloon in size to 500 MB after opening up and closing multiple widgets and closing them, switching activities, etc?
Yes, closing widgets does not mean memory will be returned to the kernel. not even glibc operates that way.
No other application on Linux I've used exhibited this behavior and showed a memory size that continued to balloon the more you use it, combined with the fact that I read numerous bug reports on Novell and KDE Bugzilla about kded4, plasma-desktop, and Xorg leaking memory. No KDE dev acknowledged or denied that the plasma-desktop memory usage ballooning in size was by design. It it were, it seems to me they would have closed out the bug if that were the case. I also had an OOM condition under KDE 4 not too long ago which caused me to come back to a completely unstable desktop and I had to hit the reset switch. If I leave my desktop up long enough, Xorg, kded4, and plasma-desktop start taking huge amounts of memory. If I didn't have an OOM condition and read bug reports from others with no closure of those bugs because they were "by design" i would think otherwise, but I'm not convinced that this is by design. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org