Bug#1040474: plasma-workspace: /usr/bin/plasmashell eats all memory
Hi,
On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:44:07 +0200 "J.L.G. Pallero" <jgpallero@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: plasma-workspace
> Version: 4:5.27.5-2+b1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: jgpallero@gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> yesterday, july 5th 2023, I updated my Debian Sid installation. Among others, the package plasma-workspace
> was updated from version 4:5.27.5-2 to version 4:5.27.5-2+b1. Today it is impossible to work with Plasma
> because all the RAM memory (plus part of the swap) is occupied. In my case I have 16 GB and I can see that
> the process called /usr/bin/plasmashell is running 82.5% of the total memory used. I uninstalled all Plasma
> packages related with Wayland in order to ensure that X11 is used, but the problem persists.
>
> If I use other window manager, as for example now IceWM, all works without problem. Also, I can use Plasma
> applications like Kate and no problems with memory exist.
Do you still see the issue ?
When plasma-workspace was updated, it was merely recompiled and
not a new plasma-workspace version.
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Med vänliga hälsningar
Patrick Franz
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