Large memory leak in plasma

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> 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.

Or at least when I see the leak again in the betas.. It can take a while.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at strangesoft.net