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mrDoctorWho

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From: TARDIS

Registered: 2014-07-05

Posts: 7

KDE4 memory leaking

Hello,
After trying KF5, I decided to fall back to KDE 4. Shortly after that I noticed that the “plasma-desktop” process is leaking much memory (up to 6GB).
Leaking with different speed. Sometimes memory usage grows faster, sometimes it doesn't at all.  There were also leaks of “kmix” and “kwin”, but just once.
I've tried to remove “~/.kde4” folder, but it didn't help me.
I'm using the latest kdebase-workspace from the “extra” repository.
Could anyone please give me an advice how to prevent “plasma-desktop” from leaking memory?

Last edited by mrDoctorWho (2015-06-17 07:38:36)

fdservices

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From: France

Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 413

Re: KDE4 memory leaking

Me too - disabled all the plasmoids that I can but they still leak.

Is there any way to regress to KDE4 proper? I would rather stay with KDE4 until Plasma5 is working properly.

Andrew

mrDoctorWho

Member

From: TARDIS

Registered: 2014-07-05

Posts: 7

Re: KDE4 memory leaking

Well, the problem disappeared somehow. I'm not sure if it was a my problem or not, but in case if it will help someone, I'll write what have I done to my system.

Beside this problem I had a one with fonts. The problem was that some letters (m, w and some others) were displaying ugly. Sometimes they have been displaying correctly and sometimes they haven't. I noticed that by some way restarting plasma-desktop affected it. Long time I have been dealing with it, I thought it is a plasma-desktop bug, but seems it was not.

When I decided to solve it, I started from fonts. I have deleted /etc/fonts and replaced freetype2-infinality-ultimate by a standard freetype2 library. And somehow it helped me. Since then, plasma never leaked anymore. That's it.

Hope that will help someone.

P.S. Sorry for my English. It was a bit hard to explain, so…