Large memory leak in plasma

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On December 18, 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > I have no idea whats causing it.
> >
> > you and the rest of the people reporting it. ;)
> >
> > > If it helps, I'm using the latest nvidia binary driver
> >
> > define "latest"
>
> Latest beta.
>
> > > While writing this message, its upped to 129MB after switching some
> > > desktops with the pager, and moving the folderview around a little.
> >
> > can you watch the memory usage as you do these things and try and pin it
> > down to exactly what triggers it? e.g. try moving the folderview and see
> > if that affects things; but ONLY move the folderview. dont switch
> > desktops, give focus to windows, etc. as that will trigger chages in the
> > pager and tasks widget.
> >
> > then try switching desktops with the pager ... swapping widows, etc...
> >
> > having an xrestop running in an always-on-top, on-all-desktops konsole
> > window can make this all a bit easier to do.
> >
> > until we track down *some* culprit, it's pretty difficult to start
> > working towards a fix.
>
> So far as I said, switching desktops and moving a folderview around made it
> grow, but regular use (I mostly use the task bars, and the notifier likes
> to pop up a lot) causes the same growth.
>
> > oh, and does this happen if you use the open source driver?
>
> Don't know, using the opensource driver makes my 8800GTS fairly useless. I
> can test it out for a while.. but seems to me if it was a driver leak, it
> wouldn't show up as owned by plasma, instead it'd just make X's virt-mem
> usage increase.

Draging windows and switching dekstops cause plasma to allocate a bunch of 
pixmaps. I assume its the pager plasmoid? Fresh start and I'm up to 1193 
pixmaps, and 50MB in pixmaps.

Using both 180.11 and 180.16 nvidia betas. I'll try again with the nv driver 
in a bit.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net